So strange
Under the cover of night, a group of people approached from a distance. The woman leading the group glanced at Le Gexiao, who was standing in front of the group. Then she saw the shivering girl huddled by the Tianshui Pond. Her expression changed and she shouted in disbelief, "Xiao Yuan?!!"
She hurriedly ran over, hugged Jiang Jingyuan and helped her up, anxiously asking, "Xiaoyuan?! Are you cold? Get up quickly and go back to the palace. Don't catch a cold."
Jiang Jingyuan stood up with the help of her force, staggered two steps, and escaped from her arms very naturally.
Xie Chuwan was completely oblivious. She took her hand and turned to look at Le Gexiao, who was standing not far away with a cold face and remained silent. Her face flushed red with anger, tears welling up in her eyes. She shouted angrily, "What are you doing?! It's so cold, and you have people gathered here for what?! Don't you even bother to get Xiaoyuan a cloak and go back quickly!"
Le Gexiao frowned, looking unhappy, pursed her lips and said nothing, but the crowd behind her had already dispersed to make way.
"Xiao Yuan, come on, I'll take you back." Xie Chuwan had tears in her eyes. She was so anxious that she didn't know what to do for a while. Then she seemed to remember something and walked out holding Jiang Jingyuan's hand.
Jiang Jingyuan's eyelids twitched, and he withdrew his hand calmly.
She raised her hand sleekly, covering the lower half of her face with her sleeves. She glanced at Le Gexiao who was not far away. Perhaps because she fell into the water, her voice was a little muffled: "I can go back by myself. Please ask Concubine Le to investigate that smiling woman. How did such a strange woman appear in the palace? She also wanted to kill me... It's so strange that no one noticed anything unusual..."
As she spoke, Jiang Jingyuan blinked her red eyes, her whole body wet, looking pitiful and aggrieved, but her steps were moving away from Xie Chuwan and Le Gexiao at a rapid pace.
Xie Chuwan behind her stared at her blankly, the worry in her eyes was covered by confusion for a moment.
Le Gexiao, who was standing with her back to Jiang Jingyuan, had a gloomy expression on her face. Her pretty features were slightly distorted with anger. She gritted her teeth and forced herself to suppress the urge to fly into a rage.
Jiang Jingyuan didn't care how much anger this person was holding in his heart, and walked into the brightly lit path on both sides without hesitation. When she passed by Jiang Jingjian, Jiang Jingjian paused, turned around and followed her with a complicated expression.
"Your Highness Jing Yuan..."
Jiang Jingyuan walked to the end of the crowd. Jiang Jingqian hurried over to support her and asked worriedly, "Your Highness, are you cold? Let's go back quickly."
Jiang Jingyuan paused for a moment.
She turned to look at the distraught Jiang Jingjian following behind her and said calmly, "I don't know. The wind was strong."
Then she turned around and nodded to Jiang Jingqian, and Jiang Jingqian supported her and trotted towards the palace complex in the distance.
The crowd around him quickly and silently dispersed, only Jiang Jingjian stood there in a daze, staring blankly at the two figures going away in the night, his whole body shivering.
"I didn't know this kind of accident would happen today, so I didn't tell you."
"The wind is too strong and cold. I'm leaving now."
Jiang Jingjian understood what she had not said. He lowered his head, and his eyes hidden in the dark began to tremble violently.
Under the quiet, blue night sky, two figures stood facing each other by the pool, yet to leave. Le Gexiao's face was gloomy as he looked at Xie Chuwan, whose eyes were red. His tone was unkind, and he was clearly furious: "You clearly know that she..."
"What does that have to do with Xiao Yuan?!" Xie Chuwan stared at her with tears in her eyes and said in a low voice.
The tone was full of seriousness and warning.
Le Gexiao stopped talking immediately, frowned, turned his head away, and snorted coldly, not knowing whether he agreed or not.
…………
The air was filled with mist and warm fragrance. His black hair was scattered or gathered on the water. Jiang Jingyuan was soaked in the warm pool with dark eyes.
After she saw Xu Qinglin researching the method of immortality in the killing realm of magic weapons at the bottom of the pool, and after she learned from Xu Qinglin that the person she had met before also had the aura of the blood seal, she became uncontrollable and crazy.
Jiang Jingyuan felt that she might regret and feel guilty after she calmed down, but she was now so crazy that she couldn't control herself and took advantage of everything and everyone around her.
Jiang Jing gradually...
Jiang Jingyuan lowered his eyes.
As for Jiang Jingjian, it is true that he is vindictive and easy to coax.
Just like if Jiang Jingyuan really fell into the water and died young, even if Jiang Jingjian couldn't take revenge right away, as long as he could wait until he had the ability to take revenge, he would definitely cut everyone involved in the incident into pieces... But Jiang Jingyuan was fine, at least he looked fine, so Jiang Jingjian just taught those people a lesson and let it go.
And what Jiang Jingyuan did tonight was telling Jiang Jingjian——
She was hurt.
She was reminding Jiang Jingjian that things were different now. She was forcing him to move forward, but she didn't know where he would go...
Wrapped tightly in a plush cloak by three or two palace maids, Jiang Jingyuan walked back to the main hall and slowly crawled onto the soft couch.
“Chirp!”
With a flick of its long tail, the small round bird with a white belly and black back jumped into the palm of her hand.
The little round bird tilted its head, looked at Jiang Jingyuan with its round black eyes, then lowered its head and pecked her hand twice.
"Looking for Mr. Rong."
Jiang Jingyuan's mind flashed. The little round bird extended its wings and pulled a roll of paper from a miniature bamboo tube tied to one of its thin legs. The paper instantly grew larger on its wing. The bird, with a white belly and black back, raised its head, lifted a wing, and held up the blank paper, motioning for Jiang Jingyuan to read it.
"So cute..." Jiang Jingyuan looked at this scene and murmured unconsciously in her heart. Her cold heart softened a little.
After a pause, Jiang Jingyuan gathered his thoughts and calmed down. He looked at the blank piece of paper held by the little round bird and pondered for a moment. Then, words appeared on the blank piece of paper out of thin air, written in beautiful handwriting.
Two lines of words appeared on the letter paper. Jiang Jingyuan paused for a moment, then continued to write down everything about how the smiling woman came to her in the name of Jiang Jingjian and how the palace maid was completely unaware of anything unusual.
——What happened tonight, Rong Yejin knowing it is one thing, but what she said is another.
What's more, she was vague in front of Le Gexiao. She still needed to tell Rong Yejin some details so that the Rong family could investigate faster.
At the end of the letter, Jiang Jingyuan added a few more words: "It's very strange. A few months ago, I can't remember how I fell into Tianshui Pond. I only remember that I saw the smiling woman in white in the water.
"Not only that, but after returning to the palace that time, I saw a smiling lady candlestick that rotated on its own. There was also a palace maid who smiled, but the moment I asked Jiang Jingjian to look over, the maid returned to normal, and seemed a little confused."
Jiang Jingyuan finished writing with his mind, lowered his eyes, and began to think carefully.
There was no doubt that Empress Rong and Rong Yejin had guessed most of her little actions in the palace, and she said that these things were not a big deal. But what puzzled and surprised her was that the person behind the scenes that Rong Yejin had hinted at was also letting her go.
Yes, she figured it out later. If an unrelated accident occurred, the court would only stick together in the big picture, scrambling for their own advantage in the details, and wouldn't sway to the point of searching for a way out.
And the only thing that can make people so panicked, entangled and wavering is people.
Rong Yejin had previously hinted at people.
A person, or a group of people, a new force... no, it should be a force that has been hidden for many years and has just revealed its tip of the iceberg to the public.
With a "whoosh" sound, the letter rolled up, slowly shrank on the wings of the little round bird, and was put back into the small bamboo tube.
The little round bird landed on the soft couch in unison. Jiang Jingyuan reached for the hot tea, warmed her hands, and drank. Just as she was about to rest, wondering if Rong Yejin had seen the letter so quickly, she heard a crisp "ding" in her ear.
Huh? So soon? Jiang Jingyuan's sleepiness suddenly faded. He paused for a moment, then looked at the little round bird bouncing on the couch.
The small round bird with a white belly and black back took out a letter from a small bamboo tube, raised its wings high, held up the slowly enlarging letter, and showed it to the girl in front of it.
Jiang Jingyuan lowered his eyes to look at the letter. The lines of words on it seemed as if they were written with a real brush dipped in ink, stroke by stroke:
"Your Highness, rest assured. Your Highness has raised the strangeness of this matter in the palace tonight, and it will surely attract countless people to investigate. As soon as someone finds any clues, the Rong family will inform Your Highness as soon as possible."
When Jiang Jingyuan saw this, she nodded unconsciously. She thought so too.
Jiang Jingyuan continued to look down the letter. "For a short time, the smiling woman Your Highness mentioned will most likely not make any moves. The Rong family will send some people into the palace, along with the people who once surrounded the Empress. It will be difficult for them to come into contact with Your Highness so soon. Ru Niang will find an opportunity to bring people to Your Highness."
Jiang Jingyuan seemed to be lost in thought.
Just as she was about to reply, she heard another crisp "ding" sound. A hint of doubt flashed across Jiang Jingyuan's eyes. She looked down and saw the little round bird holding the letter with one wing, and taking out a brocade box the size of a rice grain from a small bamboo tube with the other wing. The brocade box slowly enlarged on its wing.
The little round bird handed the brocade box to Jiang Jingyuan.
Jiang Jingyuan was stunned, straightened up, reached out to take the brocade box, opened it and saw a pill with dark purple patterns on the emerald green inside.
Jiang Jingyuan was slightly surprised.
Then, there were several consecutive "ding" sounds. The little round bird put away the letter, lowered its head, took out magic tools from the small bamboo tube and placed them on the couch.
"bite!"
The little round bird took out a letter from the bamboo tube and showed it to Jiang Jingyuan.
Jiang Jingyuan looked up and saw the letter saying, "Your Highness knows the effects of that elixir. The rest are defensive magical instruments. Although they don't reach the level of high-level magical instruments, the combined effect is extraordinary."
Jiang Jingyuan's eyelids jumped as he looked at them, and he lowered his head to look at the bracelets, bangles and rings placed on the couch.
Although these magical instruments are not of high grade, they cannot be easily obtained by taking them out alone.
The Rong family just gave it away like that?
"How many good things are there in the Rong family's treasure house..." Jiang Jingyuan couldn't help but mutter in his heart.
But... Jiang Jingyuan looked at his raised hands, then at the pile of ornaments on the couch, his eyes full of complexity.
It's useful, but...
Does she have to wear all these bracelets, bangles and rings on her hands?
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