The old woman spoke in a low voice, as if she were talking to herself.

After hearing this, Fang Chengqing covered his mouth tightly and cried with his body twitching slightly.

Seeing this scene, especially hearing the old lady's words, Chu Yaoyao felt very uncomfortable.

She couldn't help but took two steps forward and asked, "Have you ever thought about what would happen to grandma if you were gone?"

Hearing this childish voice, Fang Chengqing took his arm off his eye sockets and questioned with red eyes.

"Who are you? Why are you in my house? You are just a little kid, what do you know?!"

Chu Yaoyao pursed her lips.

【What's the point of getting angry at me? 】

She lost her temper, turned her head away from him, and continued, "Even if you are gone, the Han family will not let the old lady go."

Hearing this, Fang Chengqing's eyes turned fierce.

"How do you know this? Who are you?!"

"I see!"

He suddenly realized, "It's the Han family. It must be the Han family who asked you to come!"

Chu You patted Yaoyao's little head, then gave A Shi a look, indicating her to take Yaoyao outside.

Chu Yaoyao was led out by A Shi, pouting and looking back every few steps.

【Is there anything I can’t listen to?】

Looking at the tightly closed door, Chu Yaoyao's big eyes rolled around, and a hint of cunning flashed across her eyes.

She raised her index finger towards Ah Shi, made a "hush" sound, then carefully approached the door and put her ear to the crack.

[Hehe, I want to listen! ]

"We are from the capital, my last name is Chu..."

Chu You was halfway through his words when he suddenly heard this baby voice. He turned his head helplessly to look in the direction of the door.

Then he nodded to the two of them and whispered, "Wait a moment."

[Eh?]

Chu Yaoyao frowned and looked through the crack in the door curiously.

【Why is there no sound? 】

She was about to put her ear back to the door when it creaked open.

“Ouch!”

Chu Yaoyao lost her balance and fell directly onto her second brother's thigh.

She hugged her thighs in front of her, tilted her little head back, and smiled at him.

"Brother, let me ask you, is it okay to eat roast duck tonight?"

Chu You raised his hand and pinched the baby fat on her face.

This little guy can lie without blushing or feeling nervous.

"If you eavesdrop again, you won't have anything to eat tomorrow!"

Then he looked at Ah Shi and said, "Take the young lady out to play for a while."

Ah Shi bowed and accepted the order, "Yes!"

Chu Yaoyao wrinkled her nose, pouted her lips and muttered.

"If you don't want to listen, then don't listen!"

After closing the door again, Chu You turned around again, only to see Fang Chengqing already standing up with the help of a cane and the old woman.

Seeing him turn around, he immediately bowed deeply.

"I am here to pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Second Prince. I am unable to kneel and kowtow due to my inconvenience. I beg Your Highness to forgive me."

Chu You quickly raised his hand to help.

"No need to be so polite."

Then he looked deeply at the grandfather and grandson.

"Yaoyao is right. The Han family will not let you go. So, let's talk about how to deal with it."

…

Outside, Chu Yaoyao was poking at the ant nest in the corner out of boredom.

[System, can you...?]

System: If the host wants to know what they are saying, why not just watch the live broadcast? Humph! Now that it has tasted the sweetness of fleecing the sheep, don't expect it to work for nothing again! Hearing what it said, Chu Yaoyao poked the ground heavily with a wooden stick.

[I don’t want to know! ]

[I want you to help me pass a message to my father, telling him that the Han family cheated in the autumn exam and wanted to assassinate us.]

System: Oh, so, as long as you have points, of course you can.

Chu Yaoyao puffed out her cheeks.

After spending points to send the letter to Qionghua Palace, she suddenly thought of the woman just now.

[Can you also send a message to the villain? ]

System: Does the host want to tell the villain the whereabouts of Wen Niang?

Chu Yaoyao nodded hurriedly.

【Hmmmm.】

【May I?】

System: No, you can’t. The reason you were able to teleport a few times before was because the room you normally stay in was set as the anchor point. We have never been to Xiyue, so it’s definitely not possible.

"Why!"

Chu Yaoyao sighed upon hearing this.

[We can only think of other ways. ]

[Before the villain arrives, it’s better to send someone to keep a closer eye on them. ]

[I remember the protagonist's sixth brother seemed to have been secretly investigating Wen Niang's whereabouts...]

On the other side, Liu the Hunter’s house.

Wen Niang returned home with a heavy heart.

As soon as I entered the yard, I saw my son touching the medicinal residue that he had dried.

"Liu Xiaonan, stop it!"

She hurried over and carefully collected the medicine residue on the shelf.

Seeing this, Liu Xiaonan curled his lips in grievance.

"Mom, why do you dry the medicine residue every once in a while? And no one in our family is sick."

Wen Niang wrapped up the medicine residue, then looked at him and scolded him in a bad mood.

"You're the only one who talks too much!"

After saying that, she hurried back to the room holding the medicine residue.

After closing the door tightly, she moved a wooden board under the bed, revealing a wooden box inside.

She put the wrapped medicine residue into the box and picked up a yellowed piece of paper, which was a prescription.

There was also an earring in the box, and at the end was a small purse. When it was opened, there was a talisman inside.

If Shangguan Zhi was here, he would definitely be able to recognize that what was written on it was his birth date.

And that earring was the one his mother lost nine years ago.

Looking at these things, Wen Niang's mind reappeared the situation of that year.

Ten years ago, she was an embroiderer in the Xiyue Palace and was from the same hometown as Liuyun, the personal maid of Concubine Yu.

After her father died in the war and her mother died of illness, she was sold to a matchmaker by her brother and sister-in-law, and eventually entered the palace to work as an embroiderer.

Because she had no one to rely on, she was often ostracized and bullied by other palace maids after entering the palace.

It was Liuyun. She was the one who chased away those palace servants and warned them not to bully her again.

After Concubine Yu learned of her life experience, she often summoned her and rewarded her.

The other palace servants thought she was a favorite of Concubine Yu, and they did not dare to bully her anymore.

Concubine Yu was really a very good person. Even though she was deeply favored by the king, her daily food and clothing were even better than those of the queen.

But the queen never took advantage of her favor and was very friendly to the palace maids.

In winter, they would even spend their own money to buy them extra cotton-padded clothes and quilts, and buy better charcoal.

Not to mention the rewards during festivals and double monthly wages.

Even she, because she often went to help Concubine Yu, had a share of these.

Thinking of this, Wenniang sighed sadly.

"What a nice guy."

The king doted on the queen so much, how could he let the concubines in the harem harm her? Hundreds of miles away, in the mansion of the fourth prince of Xiyue Kingdom.

"pet?!"

Shangguan Jin laughed sarcastically, with a cold tone in his voice.

"I once thought that my mother was my father's favorite woman, and even my mother herself thought so."

Thinking of this, his face became so gloomy that it seemed as if ink could drip on it.

"Until my mother passed away, I learned from the imperial physician that her body was filled with multiple chronic poisons."

He clenched his hands tightly and his eyes were bloodshot.

"It was then that I realized that the tyrant emperor was just setting my mother up as a target to protect his beloved woman from the open and secret attacks from the previous dynasty and the harem!"