Chapter 110: Prince Xiang returns favor, biological mother Lanxu
In a mansion in the western district of the capital, a guard hurried to a room and knocked a few times.
"Come in!"
A lazy voice sounded in the room, and the guard pushed the door open, walked to the bed and respectfully called "Prince".
Several lights were lit in the room, illuminating the pale face of the person on the bed and the gauze wrapped around his exposed abdomen.
Beside the bed, there was a maid who was carefully wiping the bloody wound with a cut cloth strip and strong liquor, then picked up a porcelain bottle and shook the light yellow medicine powder inside onto the wound.
"Is there a situation?" the person on the bed asked.
This person was none other than Prince Xiang Yuwen Yan, who was rescued by Jiang Ning and Liu Ming'an.
He was seriously injured in Jinzhi City and was in critical condition. He thought he would need to recuperate for a few days, but the next day after his wounds were sutured, he found that his condition was much better than he had imagined, so he left his jade pendant and forced himself to leave.
Those who stabbed him must have thought he was dead. He could not delay and must return as soon as possible to stabilize the situation. He could not let years of planning go to waste.
"Your Highness, the two men entered the capital yesterday and stayed at Fulai Inn for one night. Today they went to Junyue Inn and then moved into a house on Wandong Road. Your subordinates have found out that the house belongs to Zhou Yi, the young master of Junyue Inn." The guard reported with his head down.
"Are you sure it's them? Don't make a mistake." Yuwen Yan emphasized.
"Every one of my subordinates and brothers has seen the portrait given by the prince. The man is Liu Ming'an. There is no mistake. The girl next to him has her face covered, so her face cannot be seen clearly, but her figure and demeanor are the same as described by the prince."
"With a covered face?" Yuwen Yan remembered his conversation with Jiang Ning and smiled: "It's right to cover the face!"
The wound on the abdomen has been re-applied with medicine powder. Yuwen Yan let the two of them help him up, and he took the gauze and wrapped the wound in circles.
Putting on his coat again, Yuwen Yan stood up and walked to the desk. As he moved, the wound on his abdomen moved, causing more severe pain, but he showed no sign of it. After all, this pain was nothing compared to the pain Jiang Ning felt when she sewed his belly with a needle.
Yuwen Yan took a few pieces of letter paper, and the maid who had applied the medicine earlier came over to grind ink.
After a while, the papers filled with writing were folded into a yellow envelope. Yuwen Yan picked up the pen again and wrote a few words on the envelope: "From Miss Jiang Ning herself," and then handed the letter to the guard waiting on the side.
"Send it overnight, and be careful of your whereabouts. Don't let anyone find you." Yuwen Yan said in a serious tone.
"Yes."
The guard clasped his fists in salute, turned around and went out.
"Alas, I have finally repaid the favor of the Third Miss." After the guards left, Yuwen Yan sighed to himself.
As for the favor of Liu Ming'an, this is even harder to repay, so we'll talk about it later.
Thinking of this, Yuwen Yan stood up with the help of the armrest of the chair, and slowly returned to the bed with the help of the maid.
I have to heal my wounds as soon as possible and not give them a chance to take advantage of me!
At midnight, everything was silent.
Jiang Ning, who was sleeping, suddenly heard a sound of breaking air, and she opened her eyes in an instant.
The next moment, there was a "click" sound from outside the house, as if something had pierced into the wood.
There's someone!
Jiang Ning became alert instantly, and immediately put the sleeping Liu Ming'an into the bamboo bed in the space, and went out with a knife.
It was quiet all around. A full moon hung in the sky, illuminating a short arrow nailed to the pillar of the house.
The arrow was halfway into the wood, and something was tied to the forearm-long tail of the arrow. It was a letter.
Jiang Ning squatted down, took the letter, glanced at the words on the cover, and had a rough guess in her mind. She pulled the arrow out with force and threw it into the space.
Back in the house, Jiang Ning brought Liu Mingan out of the space, carefully covered him with a quilt, and then slipped into the space and began to read the letter in the light of the space.
This letter had no title, no format, and was as eloquent as an account book, but it told Jiang Ning the information she wanted to know.
The letter reads: "The Prime Minister Nangong Ya and his wife Luo Siyi were deeply in love. Luo had a cousin named Cheng Qiwen, who had loved Luo since childhood. After Luo married the Prime Minister, he became resentful. When Luo was pregnant, he drugged the Prime Minister to have sex with a woman, and led Luo to the room to witness it with her own eyes, which made her mentally confused, leading to premature birth and alienating the couple's relationship."
"Cheng Qiwen was later found dead in the wilderness. He had been beaten before his death, and his body was eaten by wild dogs. His face was unrecognizable. His condition was extremely tragic." "
The Prime Minister and his wife's relationship broke down. The Prime Minister's wife did not see the Prime Minister for three years after giving birth. After his father died, the couple took care of the funeral and reunited."
"The woman who had a love affair with the prime minister was named Lan and named Xu. She had a clean family background and was framed by Cheng Qiwen..."
Jiang Ning suddenly thought of Aunt Lan in Qushui City and the longevity tablet with "Nangong Ling" written on it. Some things were self-evident.
"Lan Xu lost her chastity before marriage and was ashamed to go home. She became a nun and later found out that she was pregnant. On the ninth day of the twelfth month of the twenty-first year of Yuanning, she gave birth to a baby girl and named her Lan Ling."
The twenty-first year of Yuanning?
Jiang Ning had read all those miscellaneous books before, and she remembered some of the history of this dynasty. The twenty-first year of Yuanning was seventeen years ago.
It turned out that Nangong Ling was seventeen years old.
As for the date of the ninth day of the twelfth month, Jiang Ning also remembered it. It was that day that she went to Pufu Temple with Liu Mingan to sell couplets, and then she saw Aunt Lan in the Changsheng Hall.
The whisper of "May Ling'er be safe and sound for years" seemed to echo in her ears, and Jiang Ning felt a little depressed.
That day was Nangong Ling's birthday. The mother and daughter met again after 17 years, but neither of them recognized each other.
Even the longevity tablets and longevity lamps that Lan Xu had requested were in vain. The daughter she had been thinking about had been tortured to death.
Longevity and longevity, but the result was a short life!
"The baby girl fell ill in May. Lan Xu was unable to treat her, so she sent her to the Prime Minister's Mansion, knelt down and begged Luo Siyi to treat her daughter well, and swore that she would never set foot in the capital again in this life."
"The baby girl is the third lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Nangong Ling."
After reading this, Jiang Ning sighed in her heart and felt infinite sighing.
Nangong Ling's life is quite miserable.
The marriage of her biological parents was not out of love but conspiracy. Except for her mother Lanxu, no one expected her birth. Even if she became the daughter of the prime minister's mansion, her existence was like a thorn in the eye, reminding the prime minister's wife that her husband had been with other women.
No wonder Yuwen Yan said that Nangong Ling was a timid and taciturn person. Growing up in such a family environment, with two brothers and sisters, she was not welcomed. She must have been looked down upon everywhere, and maybe even bullied by her brothers and sisters. And those servants who follow the wind, will they really treat her as the third lady? I'm afraid it's common for evil servants to bully their masters.
In this case, Nangong Ling would probably be diagnosed with depression in modern times.
Nangong Ling lived like a transparent person, and it was impossible for her to compete with her brothers and sisters for favors. Why did she offend people?
There was only one page left of Yuwen Yan's letter, and Jiang Ning unfolded it with a heavy heart.
"The eldest son of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Nangong Chenfeng, was 22 years old at the time. He joined the army and guarded the border. He has not returned for three years." "The
second daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Nangong Muyan, was 17 years old at the time. She was born nine months earlier than the third daughter. She is waiting to be married to Prince Rui Yuwen Xuan."
"Time is short, and the little prince has limited means. I can only find out the above content to repay Miss Jiang Ning for treating her injuries. I hope you will forgive me!"
That's it.
Jiang Ning put away the letter, put it in the space, flashed out, climbed onto the bed in the moonlight outside the window, and hugged Liu Mingan.
Go to sleep first and have a good Lantern Festival tomorrow. After that, you can have revenge if you have any grudges.