Chapter 47: Life and Death Together (7) The Pain of the Wound Can Be Endured
Since Feng Gao's return, Xie Yun has been trying to uncover what happened to the princess after she left. After that night, everything happened so quickly.
That night, Lusong separated from her halfway to distract the remaining pursuers and never returned. When Xie Yun returned home, she was immediately beaten by her father for stealing important evidence.
When she was young, she stumbled upon those letters in her father's study. She was filled with anxiety and fear. Recognizing them as evidence proving Lord Yan's innocence was a remarkable achievement. With little time or reflection, she was torn between loyalty and filial piety, finding it difficult to reconcile.
Afterwards, she racked her brains to figure out how to conceal the truth from her father, quietly contact the eldest princess, and hand her the evidence. The decision she ultimately made was the only and most loyal one she could make at that young age.
Xie Yun carefully examined the letters at the time and discovered they weren't in her father's handwriting. Instead, it was a neat, elegant style, very much like the handwriting of a young scholar. The writing was neat and gave off a fresh feeling. If it were the handwriting of a love poem, it would be perfectly suitable.
In Xie Yun's impression, the handwriting was different from that of anyone in the Xie family.
She had never seen handwriting like it before, but if she saw it again, she would definitely recognize it.
At this moment, a bold idea suddenly emerged in Xie Yun's mind. Perhaps his father wasn't the only one involved in what happened back then. He might be the only one in the open, but perhaps there was another, a shadowy snake lurking in the shadows, quietly observing the entire battle and waiting for the right moment to strike.
Otherwise, if these letters were leaked, Xie Qingyun would surely be killed. Even if the handwriting wasn't his, if it could prove Lord Yan's innocence, then Xie Qingyun's crime of slandering a high-ranking official would also be proven. Xie Qingyun, as shrewd and greedy as he was, would never commit such a foolish act.
Unless this is the bargaining chip that Xie Qingyun left behind for the final game with the snake in the dark!
She remembered everything that happened that night clearly.
Xie Yun now wants to find out what happened back then. He can't ask Yan Huinan directly, nor can he ask the brothers Si Wen and Si Wu. They are too loyal and will definitely keep their mouths shut.
As for Huaixiu, she was also loyal to Yan Huinan. And now Xie Yun recalled the tone of Huaixiu's words at that time, she was actually very sure that the princess died of illness.
If this is the case, then Huaixiu may not have witnessed the process of the eldest princess's death, nor did she see the eldest princess's body.
Perhaps it would be impossible for Xie Yun to find out what happened to the Princess on her own. The only people who had close contact with the Princess back then were the ones she brought out that night. If those people were still alive, Yan Huinan would have known it was she who secretly met with the Princess.
But Yan Huinan has not shown that he knows what happened back then. Maybe the people who knew about it, except Xie Yun himself, must have all died that night.
Aside from the people Xie Yun had thought of, the only people who knew what happened that night were the killers, the ones with the mysterious tattoos.
What Xie Yun could conclude now was that the killer was not sent by Xie Qingyun, because when Xie Qingyun led them to flee to Jiangnan, they encountered the same group of people.
This is why Xie Yun was so impressed by the pattern.
And why did those people kill her and the eldest princess back then? Was it just because they were worried that the eldest princess would overturn the verdict on behalf of Marquis Yan?
The details of these Xie Yun are still unknown.
But if there really was a third party involved in the events of the past, then this assassination attempt is very likely to be connected to that group in some way. The last assassination attempt failed, and those people are very likely to come back and kill again.
Xie Yun couldn't just sit there and wait for death.
After much deliberation, she finally wrote a letter to Xie Run, hoping he could get some clues about why her father left behind those evidences, and who had ordered the assassins who had hunted her and the princess down.
As soon as Xie Yun finished writing the letter, someone came to tell her that the general was going to the Dali Temple to interrogate a prisoner, and that Xie Yun would attend the birthday banquet tomorrow on his behalf.
Xie Yun hurriedly put the letter away and said, "Run a few steps and tell the general to wait."
She went into the house and took out a snow fox fur cloak, as well as her homemade painkillers and medicine for Yan Huinan's wound. Because she was too anxious, she only asked Han Zhen to get the medicine box, and she hurried out holding the cloak.
Yan Huinan sat on his horse, waiting, when he saw Xie Yun from afar, arms full of things, hurriedly running towards him. Suddenly, the figures of Xie Yun at this moment and Xie Yun as a child overlapped.
He dismounted and took a few steps forward.
Yan Huinan: "Why are you running?"
Xie Yun shook his head and took a deep breath. "It's very cold inside the Dali Temple prison. If you stay there overnight, your body won't be able to bear it. Si Wen, give this cloak to the general."
After that, she took the medicine box that Han Zhen was carrying, opened it, and explained to Yan Huinan one by one the effects of each medicine, how to take it, how to use it, and how to not delay taking the medicine. She gave a lot of careful instructions. In fact, these were not much different. Xie Yun always gave such meticulous and thoughtful instructions to patients.
And Yan Huinan was the patient in her eyes at this moment. She wanted her patient to recover more than anyone else. Not to mention that he was trying to save her.
Over the years, Yan Huinan has become accustomed to being decisive and making decisions on his own. For example, when he decided to go to the Dali Temple, he immediately ordered someone to prepare the horse. He didn't even think about going to tell Xie Yun in person. Once the horse was ready, he set off.
But what he didn't expect was that Xie Yun actually chased him out, gave him a cloak to keep him warm, and told him to take medicine.
So Yan Huinan thought for a moment and made a decision.
"No need."
Xie Yun tilted her head: "What's wrong?"
Yan Huinan threw the whip to the soldier beside him and said, "I just suddenly felt that I should accompany you to meet my uncle and aunt."
A long time ago, the princess had asked him to bring Xie Yun to the palace formally, because although they were married, there was still a lot missing. And Prince Yu and Princess Yu were the only people who had treated him sincerely and treated him like their own child over the years.
He also instructed Si Wen, "Let the Dali Temple judge first. I will go there after my aunt's birthday banquet is over tomorrow."
Si Wen nodded.
Xie Yun knew why Yan Huinan hadn't originally planned to attend the birthday party. There were too many people coming, and the poison in Yan Huinan's body was unstable. If it suddenly broke out in front of many people, then the fact that Yan Huinan was seriously injured would be exposed. "How are your injuries?"
Yan Huinan: "I can tolerate this."
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The next day, Yan Huinan and Xie Yun attended the ceremony together. Yan Huinan was in the front hall with a group of men, but before that, he took Xie Yun to meet his uncle and aunt in advance.
Princess Yu had a kind face and was a rare beauty in her youth. When Xie Yun was very young, she first met Princess Yu and felt particularly close to her. When she first saw Princess Yu, she felt that her eyebrows and facial features were somewhat similar to Princess Heqing.
Even she thinks that the princess looks like the eldest princess. Does Yan Huinan think of his mother every time he sees her?
In fact, judging from Yan Huinan's actions, he truly regards the princess as his closest person.
The birthday gifts prepared were extremely thoughtful, not only including various treasures, but also the last batch of fruiting lychees were transported from Linnan over a long distance with great difficulty.
What Xie Yun didn't expect was that the princess even liked to eat the same things as the eldest princess.
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