Chapter 472 I didn’t steal anything!
Xiao Xixi was stunned by this unexpected surprise.
It took her a while to react.
She jumped up excitedly, rushed over to protect the prince, and cried out loudly.
"Really? Really? Really? Are you really willing to give me the bamboo forest? Are you kidding me?"
Luo Qinghan took advantage of the situation and hugged her waist, and replied calmly: "I will give it to you if I say so, and I will never break my promise."
Xiao Xixi leaned over and slapped him hard on the face.
"I love you so much!"
Luo Qinghan turned his head without changing his expression: "Come over here too."
Xiao Xixi immediately kissed him on the other side of his face.
Kiss each other, perfect symmetry!
Luo Qinghan put her back on the bed, recounted what Caiyun had confessed, and finally said.
"I will have someone bring Caiyun over to you to see later."
Xiao Xixi understood what he meant and made an OK gesture.
"Don't worry, as long as I'm here, I'll definitely be able to uncover all her secrets!"
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After a night of severe torture, Caiyun has been tortured beyond recognition, with not a single piece of healthy flesh on her body.
Even though Zhao Xian specially asked someone to help her clean it, it was still shocking to see.
Baoqin only took a glance and quickly looked away, not daring to look any longer, for fear that she would have a nightmare at night.
Xiao Xixi is fine.
She had been mentally prepared, so when she saw Caiyun, she wasn't very responsive except for being a little dazed.
She declined Baoqin's help, walked slowly to Caiyun, squatted down, and looked at Caiyun's face without blinking.
Caiyun's face was also covered with wounds, and it was almost unrecognizable from her original appearance.
She barely opened her red and swollen eyes, looked at Concubine Xiao in front of her, and begged with difficulty.
"Please, let me go. I'll tell you everything."
Xiao Xixi observed her face carefully, and asked someone to bring her birth date and eight characters. After careful calculation, she soon came to a conclusion.
She asked, "Were you forced to enter the palace to be a maid?"
Caiyun was stunned, then denied: "No, no, I came to the palace voluntarily."
Palace maids were generally selected from good families all over the country. Most of them were voluntary, but some were forced. The reasons were varied, but every family has its own problems and it is hard to explain.
Xiao Xixi seemed not to hear her denial and continued talking.
"You were born in a merchant family and originally had a good marriage proposal, but because the other party's family was ordinary and could not afford much betrothal gifts, your family members disliked it."
Caiyun's eyes trembled violently.
She said nothing, but her shock was evident.
She had never told anyone about these things, so no one in the palace should know about them.
Perhaps Xiao Xixi was tired of standing, so she simply sat down and continued speaking slowly.
"Your parents wanted to cancel the engagement, but you didn't want to, so you wanted to elope with the other party. Unfortunately, at the last minute, the other party changed his mind and you were abandoned by him."
Caiyun has met the wrong person and has a bumpy love life, which is already reflected in her birth date and time.
Xiao Xixi spoke in a plain and straightforward manner, without any emotional ups and downs, but her words were very straightforward, and the scenes she described were very vivid, as if she had seen them with her own eyes.
The shock on Caiyun's face became more and more intense.
If she wasn't covered in wounds and unable to move, she would have jumped up and asked the other party why he knew so much?
Xiao Xixi continued the story bit by bit based on the result she had calculated and by observing her facial expressions.
"You were devastated, but you didn't want to go home because you felt ashamed. You were desperate, and happened to see people in the palace selecting maids, so you made up your mind and decided to enter the palace to find a way out. You did come to the palace voluntarily, but you were forced to do so. You had no better choice, and entering the palace was your only way out."
She could figure out that Caiyun's entry into the palace was related to her meeting the wrong person, but she could only guess the rest on her own.
As for how much truth and how much falsehood there is, it depends on luck.
Caiyun's body was shaking violently, and her voice was stuttering: "I, I don't know what you are talking about."
Seeing her reaction, Xiao Xixi had a rough idea in her mind, and spoke the next words more fluently.
"You must feel guilty towards your parents and family over the years, right?
Have you seen them recently?
Did they tell you that something happened at home and they urgently needed money and wanted you to help?
You don’t have that much money, so you can only steal. Who can you steal from?
Of course, it was to steal Concubine Li’s things.
She has so much jewelry, even if a few pieces are missing, no one will notice, right?"
Judging from her facial features, Caiyun has recently reunited with her relatives, and has been unlucky with money and bad luck, and has even done some sneaky things.
Caiyun couldn't help but retort: "No! I didn't steal anything!"
Xiao Xixi asked leisurely, "Everything in the palace is registered. If we ask someone to check every pawnshop in Beijing, we can find out what's there. Do you want to give it a try?"
Caiyun's whole body was shaking violently and her eyes were evasive.
She didn't dare to answer and could only repeat the sentence over and over again.
"I didn't steal anything, I didn't."
Xiao Xixi continued to ask, "Did someone find out about your theft? Did someone use this to threaten you, force you to poison the tea, and use your family to force you to take the blame?"
Caiyun screamed like crazy: "I didn't! I didn't!!"
Luo Qinghan had been watching quietly, and now he finally spoke.
"Zhao Xian, send people to check all the pawnshops in the capital to see if anyone has taken the palace's jewelry to pawn recently. Also, check the records of people entering and leaving the palace in the past month, especially the records related to the Jade Lotus Palace and Ning Wuyuan. You must check it thoroughly."
He paused here and added in a deep voice.
"Remember, it's better to kill someone by mistake than to let him go!"
Playing such a trick right under his nose, do you really think that he, the crown prince, is dead? !
Zhao Xian took the order and left, taking Caiyun with him.
Baoqin helped Concubine Xiao to stand up.
Luo Qinghan instructed Eunuch Chang, "Have someone keep an eye on Yulian Palace and Ningwu Garden, and don't let the people inside have any contact with the outside world."
Eunuch Chang was startled, knowing that the prince had identified Concubine Bai and Concubine Duan as the suspects.
He cupped his hands and said, "Yes."
It was already bright by then.
Eunuch Chang reminded him, "Your Highness, you still have to attend the Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony today. It's getting late now. Shouldn't you set off now?"
Luo Qinghan had already changed his clothes, and now he just had to put on the golden crown and he was ready to set off.
He looked at Xiao Xixi, hesitated, and said.
"You are still very weak, so you don't need to participate in the Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony. You should stay in Qingge Palace."
(End of this chapter)
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