Xie Lingqin led Zihe out of Ning Xiucai's courtyard and remained silent for a long time.
"Miss, should I send someone to investigate?" Zihe asked softly.
"No need." Xie Lingqin raised her hand to stop them. "Since the other party was able to cultivate Ning Yi to this level, if they didn't want us to know, they must have already made arrangements. However, I was thinking..."
Xie Lingqin frowned, her eyes filled with a dark and gloomy look.
Seeing this, Zihe simply followed quietly behind without saying a word.
"I'm thinking, based on what Ning Yi said just now, and my own guess, if Ning Yi was someone who wanted to send him to my side, then why did I encounter Ning Xiucai instead? If I had met the highly skilled Ning Yi earlier, I..."
The original owner might not have died. Did something unexpected happen in between?
"Never mind." Xie Lingqin said calmly, waving her hand. "Let's put this matter aside for now." After saying this, Xie Lingqin called out to Tinghai from the shadows.
Tinghai immediately appeared, his round, chubby face looking quite aggrieved.
"Is this... displeasure?"
Xie Lingqin, however, wore a slightly amused expression.
"No, I'm wronged. Miss Wanwan knocked me unconscious and wouldn't let me do anything for you."
"Isn't that because I'm afraid you'll tip off your former master? Then my plan will all be ruined."
although……
In the end, it wasn't considered a success.
“Well, Zihe also came from the Crown Prince’s residence. How can you believe that she wouldn’t inform us?”
Tinghai even threw a tantrum, pointing at Zihe and saying, "That's so unfair, so unfair!"
"Listen to that. With just these words, you're admitting that if you had known earlier, you would have informed the Crown Prince."
Tinghai was speechless.
“Zihe is a woman, and she is prettier than you.”
Xie Lingxin's reason made Tinghai's round, chubby face unable to muster even the slightest smile, and his eyebrows drooped.
"How about I treat you to a few more bowls of maocai (a type of Sichuan hot pot) then?"
Xie Lingqin's tone finally softened.
Upon hearing this, Tinghai's aggrieved expression vanished instantly, replaced by a beaming smile. "Six bowls, six bowls."
"good."
"I knew it, Miss is the best."
Xie Lingqin's brow twitched. "Sycophant." After saying that, she looked behind her and then said, "Alright, stop hiding and come out."
"Ah, Miss."
Suddenly, a lean, dark figure leaped over from the eaves of a wall in the shadows.
It was indeed sour skin, and it did look rather haggard.
"Miss, I haven't had a proper meal or drink all night."
As soon as Suanpi approached, she started complaining.
"I told you to hide, not that I told you not to eat."
“Miss, you make it sound so easy. It was a pincer attack from both the Thunder Guards and the guards of Prince Qing’s mansion. I’m already lucky that I was able to drop my axe and escape with my life. I’m even able to show myself and eat something. Of course, I have to stay put.”
"Oh." Xie Lingqin raised an eyebrow as she watched Suanpizi become more and more pitiful and considerate of her. "Suanpizi, you want a beating, don't you? Do you think I don't know your abilities? Hiding someone is a piece of cake for you."
Sour-skinned, Xie Lingqin exposed his lie, and he immediately chuckled obsequiously, then whispered a negotiation, "Then, the money you mentioned last night for the coffin, the silver..."
"Go and meet with Commander Ming." Xie Lingqin ignored this and took a few steps before turning back. "The person I asked you to steal, hurry up and do it. There's silver in it."
"Okay, all right."
The sour peas immediately flew up and quickly disappeared from Xie Lingqin's sight.
Thinking of what happened last night, Zihe glanced at the sky before saying, "Miss, what about last night, when you said you were going to deliver the Dharma to Yuwen Xian today...?"
Xie Lingqin glanced at Zihe and suddenly smiled with an unusually cunning expression.
Zihe lowered her eyebrows slightly, looking somewhat bewildered and confused.
...
At this moment, in the study of the Prince Xian's residence.
Yuwen Xian's face was ashen.
"Your Highness, there's no need to worry. I heard that the man only knocked Consort Lan unconscious last night, and she's not seriously injured."
"It's not a big deal, but it also shows that my mother and I are in their hands. Moreover, although my mother is the victim, the other party still used my mother's face to assassinate the emperor in the imperial bedchamber. When the emperor thinks about this later, he will definitely harbor resentment towards my mother."
"this……"
"Alright, you can leave now."
"Your Highness, there's something else I wanted to tell you. I later sent people outside the city to dispose of the bodies, but all of them have disappeared."
"What?"
Upon hearing this, Yuwen Xian was startled, his face turning somewhat fierce. "They've all disappeared?"
"Yes," the man replied, his head bowed, his face dark and utterly defeated.
Yuwen Xian looked at the newcomer, then at the oppressive sky outside. After a long while, he calmed himself down and sighed, "Since this is how it is, let's let it go for now. Have you completed the preparations I asked you to make?"
"Your Highness, we have laid a trap and are just waiting for them to fall into it."
"Fine." Yuwen Xian clenched his fist, looking out the window, his eyes cold and sinister. "Today, I will make sure you never return."
...
The dozen or so corpses that Yuwen Xian thought were already dead and needed to be disposed of were now arranged by Minglan to be outside the city.
Minglan didn't say much to them, but simply had someone bandage them up and left them there. At the same time, she sent a message to Xie Lingqin, telling her about the situation of the dozen or so people.
At this moment, Xie Lingqin had quietly returned to Qingshui Pavilion, wrapped herself in bandages, and pretended to be seriously injured, but in reality, she was lying in the room leisurely reading a book.
Zihe and Tinghai, who were hiding in the shadows, exchanged a glance, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back.
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