"So, just now, when the Holy Maiden looked at that jade pendant, she used some kind of forbidden magic. She probably thought that because she used magic, she disturbed the child in your womb, causing you to miscarry your five-month-old baby."
"Yes, to be honest, this pregnancy was never going well, and I was not supposed to be able to give birth. But if I can make the Emperor feel guilty and take pity on me, then I won't lose, will I?"
"Using your child as a bargaining chip, you really are a good mother."
Consort Shu glanced at Xie Lingqin, not failing to detect the sarcasm in the woman's words, and gave a weak laugh, "I just wanted to make its death more valuable."
“Since that’s the case, you don’t need to be so sad.” Xie Lingqin took a step back. “We’re not exactly close friends. If it weren’t for Liu Yunzhou’s sake, I wouldn’t have helped you after reading the note you gave me, but…”
Xie Lingqin was somewhat disgusted. "Using Liu Yunzhou's future to threaten me, what do you think your cousin, who is so worried about you, would think if he knew?"
"But otherwise, I don't know how I could persuade you to cooperate so readily."
“However, I, Xie Lingqin, have never been one to be threatened. My actions today are merely out of curiosity about how things will unfold.” With that, Xie Lingqin decided not to say anything more, and glanced at the jade pendant again. “Rest well, this humble woman takes her leave.”
Consort Shu looked at Xie Lingqin's slender yet upright back, then at the jade pendant in her hand, and then closed her eyes and sighed softly.
That woman's death remains a mystery to this day!
...
With Xie Lingqin gone, it was naturally even less appropriate for Liu Yunzhou to stay any longer.
However, walking with Xie Lingqin on the palace road, Xie Lingqin's gloomy expression made Liu Yunzhou feel somewhat uneasy.
"Xie Lingqin, if you really like that jade pendant, and can't bear to part with it, but also can't let go of your pride, I can help you get it back."
Liu Yunzhou pondered for a long time before finally speaking, but Xie Lingqin glared at him as if he were a ghost and said, "Don't try to be clever."
Is she the kind of person who can't bear to part with a piece of jade?
Liu Yunzhou immediately fell silent.
Xie Lingqin was too lazy to pay attention to his thoughts, and her mind was filled with deep contemplation.
The jade pendant didn't belong to her mother, who had once been on good terms with a woman named Yun Yishang.
The Emperor and the Holy Maiden clearly wanted to discover some secret from that jade pendant.
She had seen it in the Heavenly Mystery Hall; back then, the one who truly summoned 50,000 soldiers was a woman named Yun Yishang.
Therefore, the Emperor and the Holy Maiden wanted to find a breakthrough here and locate the 50,000 soldiers who had disappeared without a trace.
Moreover, in the secret passage of the General's Mansion, the man in black robes said that there was a place unknown to the world, a place that had been passed down for thousands of years. There, flowers bloomed in all four seasons, birds sang, and clouds were as dark as ink. Until one day, the flowers and plants withered, the river dried up, and the way disappeared.
Could it be that those 50,000 troops are in a place unknown to the world?
The only people who knew the way were her mother and the woman named Yun Yishang. However, both of them were dead, so the emperor could only look for clues in their belongings.
But are these 50,000 divine soldiers really that important to the Emperor? So important that even though he knows it was the Holy Maiden who used forbidden magic, causing Consort Shu to have a miscarriage and her unborn child to die tragically, he can still forgive her?
Xie Lingqin touched her brow.
The more I think about it, the more complicated it seems to become.
Xie Lingqin and Liu Yunzhou left the palace, where Zihe was waiting. Upon seeing Xie Lingqin come out, she immediately stepped forward and said, "Miss, the young master has returned."
"Isn't Xie Danling's return a perfectly normal thing?"
"However, after he asked Steward Xie and the general's guards about Young Master Ning, he hurriedly left the mansion. Seeing the young master's expression, I was afraid something might have happened, so I rushed to find you."
Xie Lingqin frowned. "They're all such a handful. Let's go to Ning Xiucai's house."
"I'll go with you too."
Liu Yunzhou said.
Xie Lingqin glanced at him, and Liu Yunzhou immediately changed his tune, "Oh, I was just about to go see Brother Ning today, and also check on the children."
Xie Lingqin remained noncommittal and boarded the carriage with Zihe.
Liu Yunzhou also got into his carriage.
So the two carriages headed towards Ning Xiucai's house.
From afar, after dismounting from the painting exhibition, Xie Lingqin walked into the box and saw that the gate of Ning Xiucai's courtyard was wide open.
The atmosphere is off.
"Bang--"
With a loud thud, a figure flew out of the courtyard and crashed heavily to the ground, groaning in pain.
It turned out to be Xie Danling.
Just as Xie Lingqin was about to step forward, she saw Ning Yi rush out of the gate with a sullen face and angrily holding a wooden stick used for starting fires, as if she was about to go towards Xie Danling.
"stop."
Xie Lingqin took a sip.
Ning Yi immediately looked at Xie Lingqin, her entire aura softening, her pure and clear eyes calling out, "Sister."
"You are not allowed to call her 'sister'."
Ning Yi's shout immediately enraged Xie Danling. Clutching her chest, she jumped up from the ground and walked to Xie Lingqin, blocking Ning Yi's view.
"She is the eldest daughter of the General's Mansion, and has nothing to do with you."
Ning Yi pouted, tilted her head pitifully, and looked at Xie Lingqin persistently, "Sister."
"I've already told you, you're not allowed to call me that. You're not from the General's Mansion."
"He is."
Xie Lingqin suddenly spoke, abruptly interrupting Xie Danling's obviously self-deceiving words.
Xie Danling's voice froze. She turned around almost in slow motion, looking at Xie Lingqin with resentment and unwillingness in her eyes. "You, you really treat him like your brother. So, these past few days, you haven't asked about my situation at all, all because of him."
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