Chapter 644: Back Then (Update 1)
Eunuch Li responded respectfully.
Ye Chutang put the turquoise bead into his pocket and searched in the box for a while.
Suddenly, she paused and a smile appeared on the corner of her lips.
“Found it.”
I turned my hand over and saw a white jade crabapple hairpin lying quietly in the palm of my delicate white hand.
Eunuch Li took a look and laughed too.
"It's good to find it! It's good to find it!"
Ye Chutang casually inserted the hairpin into her hair, making her already beautiful face look even more gentle and elegant.
"Thank you, Eunuch Li, for accompanying me on this trip."
Eunuch Li hurriedly shook his head, "Miss Ye Er, you are too polite! This is my honor, how can I deserve your thanks?"
Ye Chutang's status is no longer what it used to be, so he naturally respects him very much.
Ye Chutang glanced at the sky and said, "It's getting late. The Imperial College is closed for the ten-day holiday today. Ah Yan should be home soon.
I won’t stay any longer.”
Eunuch Li stepped aside and said, "Second Miss Ye, please!"
Ye Chutang walked for a distance and suddenly stopped.
"If Your Majesty knew about this bead, I'm afraid he would be moved by it..."
"I understand. Your Majesty has finally recovered. This little thing is not worth your Majesty's concern." Eunuch Li said immediately.
Even if Ye Chutang didn't say it, he would not tell Emperor Mu Wu what happened today.
"Princess Jing is gone, why bother the living anymore?"
Ye Chutang's eyes curved.
"Eunuch Li is very insightful. No wonder His Majesty relies on you the most. I will leave now. Eunuch Li does not need to see me off."
…
"Chongshan?"
Ye Jingyan raised his head from his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, with a look of surprise on his face.
"Sister, why did you suddenly think of going there?"
Ye Chutang took out the turquoise bead from his purse and briefly recounted what had happened during the day.
Ye Jingyan suddenly realized and frowned slightly again.
"So, sister thinks... Chongshan might be able to find clues related to Xiao Lanxi's fake death?"
Ye Chutang shook his head, "Nothing is known yet, I just thought, maybe I can try my luck."
Ye Jingyan fell into deep thought.
When his elder sister first told him that Xiao Lanxi might have faked her death and escaped, he was surprised but quickly accepted it.
After all, he had also heard that the Southern Hu people's poison techniques were very powerful.
But he really didn't expect that his elder sister would think of starting the investigation from Xiao Lanxi's biological mother.
"Indeed... She is her biological mother after all. They both have the blood of the Nanhu people flowing in their veins, and now it seems that she also has an unclear connection with the Nanhu people."
Ye Jingyan just couldn't figure out one thing.
"But as a princess, she grew up in the deep palace. When did she come into contact with these things? Could it be... during those years she was in Guanling?"
Guanling borders Nanhu, and Xiao Lanxi has half Nanhu blood, so it is unknown whether he will join forces with them.
Ye Chutang held up the bead. Under the bright light, the residual blood in the gap became darker.
She narrowed her eyes slightly, as if thinking about something.
"This is just too much of a coincidence... Why did she leave the capital and go to Guanling, and come into contact with all this?"
She suddenly looked at Ye Jingyan, "Ah Yan, do you know why she was suddenly sent to Guanling that year?"
Ye Jingyan was stunned. "Didn't she say that she was not in good health and went there to recover?"
"Yeah, even you know..."
Ye Chutang murmured,
"Everyone knows that the unfavored Third Princess was sent away because she was weak and not favored by His Majesty... But there are many famous doctors in the capital, and she was already being raised by Concubine Ru. Even if she stayed, she would be well taken care of. Why did she have to go to Guanling?"
Ye Chutang felt as if there was a fog in front of him that was difficult to sort out.
She vaguely felt that something was wrong.
"What if at that time... someone fanned the flames and deliberately sent her away so that she could get in touch with those Nanhu people?"
Ye Jingyan was startled and subconsciously stood up and looked outside to make sure that the doors and windows were locked. Then he looked at Ye Chutang again with a frown.
"What do you mean, sister?"
"What a coincidence."
Ye Chutang's palm slowly tightened.
"She is a helpless princess who has been alone in Guanling for several years. She has accumulated so many secrets. No one knows what she has experienced in the past. I have taken her pulse and her body is indeed a little weak, but it is not an incurable disease..."
Suddenly, she thought of something and her expression changed.
"Yes! Her body...has been wrong for a long time!"
Ye Jingyan didn't quite understand, "What?"
Ye Chutang felt that everything in his mind became clearer.
"Do you still remember that during the autumn hunt, I was invited by the princess to check Xiao Lanxi's pulse?"
Ye Jingyan was stunned and nodded, "That's true."
"At that time, I found out that Xiao Lanxi had been poisoned a few years ago, and it was very dangerous. Logically, she had no chance of surviving. But although she was weak, her life was not in danger. At that time, she said that it was because she happened to meet a local who helped her detoxify..."
Everything sounded reasonable at the time, but now that I think about it, it’s not the case!
Ye Jingyan also realized something and could not hide the surprise in his eyes.
"Sister, what you mean is that the time she was poisoned... there was actually something else going on?"
"I asked Princess Qinyang, and she said that there are only a few people in Nanhu who can perform the fake death Gu technique, and those who are poisoned have to pay a huge price. Perhaps... Xiao Lanxi was already preparing for today!"
Ye Jingyan took a breath of cold air.
Even though he had been mentally prepared, he was still shocked when he heard Ye Chutang's speculation.
"If that's the case, doesn't that mean she got in touch with those people as soon as she arrived at Guanling? And how old was she at the time? How could she be so cruel to herself? How could she be so sure that she would be able to use this trick a few years later?"
"So... I was wondering, was her going to Guanling that year an accident, or... was it a long-planned plan?"
Ye Chutang suddenly stood up.
"I'm going out for a while."
"Now?" Ye Jingyan glanced at the sky, "But it's already dark..."
"It's only convenient when it's dark."
Ye Chutang made a prompt decision.
Ye Jingyan opened his mouth but didn't stop him in the end.
He knew that his sister would not easily change her decision.
Besides, his sister has been like this often over the years, and he has gotten used to it.
"Then...be careful, sister."
Ye Chutang nodded and looked back at Xiaowu who was already fast asleep behind the screen.
"Take good care of Xiaowu. I'll be back soon."
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The Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery.
The moon was at its zenith and the servant in charge of guarding the courtyard yawned.
A shadow silently fell behind the pillar in the corridor and then disappeared quietly.
Xiao Jiayi had just laid down when she suddenly felt something in her heart and sat up abruptly!
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