Chapter 216 Tuoba Ling'er
The woman broke free of her restraints and pulled the dagger away. Haitang instinctively turned to avoid her.
He reached out to snatch the dagger from the woman, but she clearly knew some martial arts. Seeing this, she tried to dodge by pulling her wrist towards Haitang's waist.
The dagger sliced off a corner of Haitang's clothes.
Western Region clothing is mostly made of thin gauze. When Haitang retreated, the thin garment around her waist was caught on the hilt of her knife and a large piece was torn off.
Haitang clutched her waist with one hand, looked up and grabbed the dagger the woman was thrusting at her. She twisted her wrist so the tip of the blade was pointing at the woman, intending to dodge the woman's attack and then knock the dagger out of her hand.
Having been by Jiang Wan Ning's side for so long, Hai Tang naturally knew that what Jiang Wan Ning had just said was just to scare the woman into revealing the truth.
What Haitang didn't expect was that the woman rushed up on her own without any hesitation.
The dagger pierced her throat, and the woman collapsed to the ground, blood gushing from her mouth, her eyes fixed on Jiang Wanru's direction.
Jiang Wanru gently pressed her handkerchief to her nose, frowned slightly, and said with disdain, "Quickly, someone carry her away."
Then, she provocatively said to Jiang Wan Ning, "Mother, the murderer has been found and dealt with by your maid. I think we should just let this matter go."
"After all, nothing bad happened to Chun Tao, right?"
Without evidence, let's see how Jiang Wan Ning tries to pin the blame on her.
Jiang Wanning glanced at the woman lying on the ground, who was already cold. It seemed that Jiang Wanru had some kind of leverage over the woman, which was why the woman would rather die than tell the truth.
If they insist on investigating further, Jiang Wanru might kill all of this woman's family members as well.
In order to prevent innocent people from being implicated, and since the main purpose this time was to find someone, Jiang Wan Ning didn't say anything more.
He turned and left.
Jiang Wanru watched Jiang Wanning's retreating figure and smiled smugly.
After so long, Jiang Wan Ning finally got her comeuppance, as if she had returned to the time when Jiang Wan Ning was completely fooled by her and her mother.
The only pity is that I didn't get to defile that vile maid Chun Tao.
"Her name is Guanqi."
Jiang Wanru was startled by the sudden sound, thinking that she had accidentally blurted out what she was thinking.
Looking up at Hai Tang's fierce gaze, she shrank back in fright, but then felt she couldn't back down; after all, her status was much higher than that of a lowly servant.
She forced herself to remain calm, straightening her back, and said, "It's none of your business what to call me, you're just a maid."
"Haitang, your back?"
Shen Ruzhi noticed that Haitang hadn't followed, and when she turned around, she saw Haitang talking to Jiang Wanru.
Upon hearing this, everyone instinctively looked towards Haitang's waist. When they saw the plum blossom birthmark on her waist, those who knew the purpose of this event were all shocked.
Jiang Wan Ning never expected that the person everyone was searching for would actually be right next to her.
Seeing the strange looks on everyone's faces, Jiang Wanru also looked at Haitang's waist. After seeing it clearly, her eyes widened in shock. "How is this possible?"
Jiang Wanru subconsciously covered her mouth. This lowly maid was actually the person the Grand Princess was looking for?
What is her relationship with the Lingxiao Sect? Given how much the Lingxiao Sect values her, she must not be an enemy; she must be a very important person.
"Your Highness." Haitang walked up to Jiang Wanning with a puzzled look, not understanding why everyone was looking at her like that.
"Didn't you know about the birthmark on your waist?"
Haitang then turned her head to look at her waist and shook her head, "This servant doesn't know."
Although she shared a room with Peony, she never showed her back to Peony or the Princess.
The location of this birthmark is indeed not easy to notice, and Haitang is not a person who cares about her appearance, so it is normal that she has never noticed it.
Now that we've found it, there's no need to attend this banquet today.
Jiang Wanru hadn't expected that the person had already been found before the banquet had even truly begun, and the key point was...
For now, we can only inform the Grand Princess.
Jiang Wanning and Shen Ruzhi left the teahouse together. "Let's go to my house."
Shen Ruzhi said, "Baitang is definitely being watched by everyone right now."
"No, I don't think so. Haitang knows martial arts, and it's safer for her to stay in the Prince's mansion," said Shaoyao.
Shen Ruzhi stared at Tuoba Yan'er, "With someone following you, how can you be safe?"
"Come to my house, but I don't accept strangers."
From the moment Tuoba Yan'er saw the crabapple blossom, she stared at it greedily and followed it out eagerly.
"Do you know who you're looking for? What's their relationship with the Lingxiao Sect? And do you know what my relationship is with the Lingxiao Sect?"
Tuoba Yan'er said proudly, "This person will eventually belong to me; you are the outsider."
Tuoba Yan'er pointed at Chen Ruzhi.
"Luckily, this person is Haitang." Tuoba Yan'er had met Haitang and Shaoyao before and liked them very much.
"If it were you, I would have thrown you away again." Tuoba Yan'er made a face at Shen Ruzhi.
"What does this have to do with you?" Shen Ruzhi said, hands on her hips, looking at Tuoba Yan'er. "You're just a princess of Xixia."
"We don't even know what the connection is between her and the Lingxiao Sect, or what the connection is between Haitang and the Lingxiao Sect, and you already know?"
Tuoba Yan'er retorted, "The leader of the Lingxiao Sect is our Western Xia Empress. I, the princess, call her my aunt."
"She is the woman I admire most in this world."
"And Haitang, oh no, she should be called Tuoba Ling'er now, is the child of my aunt and uncle, and is the most noble princess of my Western Xia."
"More distinguished than you?"
Tuoba Yan'er glared at Chen Ruzhi, "She is naturally more noble."
“She,” Tuoba Yan’er pointed at Haitang, “is my cousin, do you understand?”
Tuoba Yan'er did not see the surprise and astonishment she had expected; everyone sitting in the spacious carriage had an expression that said, "I knew it all along."
"See? What did I tell you?" Shen Ruzhi crossed her arms. "This guy can tell you everything if you provoke him even slightly."
"Ningning, you're amazing. You guessed it a long time ago. The person the Lingxiao Sect is looking for is the princess of Xixia."
"You tricked me?" Tuoba Yan'er jumped up and down in anger.
"Ouch."
He slammed his head against the roof of the carriage, wincing in pain as he reached up to cover it. "How can you people of Dongling be so despicable?"
"And you, Princess Consort of Langya, I considered you a friend, yet you conspired with her to plot against me."
Shen Ruzhi wrapped around Jiang Wanning's arm, "When we were friends, you didn't even know where you were."
Tuoba Yan'er pulled Haitang over, "You are a Western Xia person now, you must be of one mind with me."
“Tomorrow,” Tuoba Yan’er said, “oh no, I’ll take you back today.”
"You've been exposed, haven't you?" Shen Ruzhi said. "Do you dare say that your purpose in coming here today is only to find the Prince of Jin?"
"Instead of using this as an excuse to search for your princess?"
After all, if you find it yourself, you don't have to agree to cooperate with others.
"So what if it is?"
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