Chapter 821 The Truth - What Happened?
The way she spoke to the child almost made Gu Shuyan lose focus.
Are these two just fooling themselves into thinking they're healthy? Gu Shuyan couldn't help but roll her eyes, but she wasn't going to argue with them about that right now.
"I don't want to stay here anymore, you guys hurry up and find the authorities."
Gu Shuyan spoke in a slightly coquettish voice, and the others immediately put on a searching expression again.
About half an hour later, the group still hadn't found anything, and the four of them sat dejectedly on the hillside in a daze.
"So, do you still want to leave?"
Mu Fan's voice drifted over, and Gu Shuyan glanced at him before immediately turning her head away.
Seeing that Gu Shuyan didn't want to talk to him, Mu Fan wasn't annoyed. He silently stepped forward and said, "Wait a few more days, and I will definitely help you find the Blood Spirit Mushroom."
Mu Fan genuinely wanted to help Gu Shuyan. Although Gu Shuyan was determined to use Mu Fan, she was still slightly taken aback when she heard this.
"You keep your word?"
After a long while, Gu Shuyan finally spoke, but this time her voice was clearly muffled.
Mu Fan nodded, "I promise."
Gu Shuyan stopped talking. Seeing this, Mu Fan winked at Wuyin and Yufei, "Let's go. It's windy here. If we keep blowing, your wives will catch a cold."
Upon hearing this, Wuyin and Yufei exchanged a glance. For the sake of their mistress's health, the two ultimately helped Gu Shuyan up.
The group returned to the village. This time, Gu Shuyan was noticeably different from the day before. Seeing that she was in a bad mood, Mu Fan simply told the others to take good care of Gu Shuyan before leaving.
Yun Yichen, along with Zhong Lin and the others, followed Gu Shuyan and the others up the mountain. After circling around the same spot a few times, Yun Yichen slowly realized something was wrong.
If they were lost, this place is quite far from the real depths of the mountains and forests, so they shouldn't be lost. Why are they going around in circles here?
Could it be that someone is deliberately leading them in circles?
Realizing this, Yun Yichen quickened his pace. If Gu Shuyan were really led into the mountains by someone, wouldn't that be even more dangerous?
Yun Yichen followed the footsteps, hoping to find Gu Shuyan quickly, but no matter how they went around, they couldn't find their way out.
As the weather grew increasingly worse, for everyone's safety, Yun Yichen had no choice but to clear away the footprints and lead everyone back.
Beside the fireplace, a slightly weathered male voice asked, "I heard you went to Jade Peak Mountain today?"
Yun Yichen nodded. "Zhong Lin found traces of my wife at the foot of the mountain, so I went to check it out."
"She's here too?"
The man was clearly surprised by Gu Shuyan's arrival, but after a moment, he closed his eyes and said, "Perhaps it's all fate!"
As he spoke, the man slowly stood up, his canes, which he was leaning on, were particularly striking.
Seeing him struggling to move, Yun Yichen wanted to help him, but he stopped him.
The man walked to a low cabinet not far away, took out a piece of paper with a drawing on it, and clearly drew some patterns on the paper.
"This was left behind by our master back then. The road to that place is clearly drawn on it. If the young mistress hadn't gone up Jade Peak Mountain, I probably would never have taken it out in my life."
The man handed the drawing to Yun Yichen, who gave him a complicated look.
"Uncle Rong, can you tell me what happened to your leg?"
Since arriving here, Yun Yichen has never asked about men's private matters.
Firstly, Yun Yichen was afraid of touching on Uncle Rong's painful past; secondly, Yun Yichen was also worried that knowing the truth would make him feel even more heavy-hearted.
After all, Yun Yichen had already learned of the Seventh Prince's death from Rong Shu's few words. In the capital, Yun Yichen learned from Lu Hexuan that the Seventh Prince had left the palace alive. What exactly happened to them afterward, and why the Seventh Prince died, Yun Yichen could guess that the two of them must have gone through a lot, even if Rong Shu didn't say it.
When Uncle Rong saw that he had asked about it, he thought for a moment and simply told him about what happened back then.
"After my master and I escaped from the imperial prison, we went to the imperial mausoleum. My master's intention was to see Consort Yun one last time, even if she were gone. However, we never expected that when we arrived at the imperial mausoleum, we would see such a scene..."
"Hurry up, hurry up."
Outside the imperial mausoleum, a group of people dressed as royal guards hurriedly carried a person covered in a white cloth out of the mausoleum.
The Seventh Prince and his personal guard, A Rong, had just arrived when they saw this scene. The two quickly found a secluded place to hide. Soon after, a man slowly walked out of the imperial mausoleum. This man was none other than Xu Menglong, the Crown Prince of Jin at the time.
Xu Menglong left people to clean up the mess, while he himself walked ahead and left with the people covered by the white sheet that were carried out.
The Seventh Prince felt a bad feeling as soon as he saw Xu Menglong. When he saw the hand that was accidentally exposed under the white cloth, the Seventh Prince became even more nervous and hurriedly chased after him.
It would be extremely difficult for the severely injured Seventh Prince to catch up with such a group. Fortunately, Xu Menglong did not rush on his way, but instead stayed temporarily in the nearest town.
The fact that Xu Menglong stole the imperial concubine's body from the imperial tomb is such a serious matter that no one knows what tricks he played, but no one even noticed.
The new emperor's men searched everywhere for the whereabouts of the seventh prince, but the seventh prince, because he was with Xu Menglong, was able to take the opportunity to recuperate.
A few days later, Xu Menglong set off again. The Seventh Prince was still seriously injured and could not keep up with their pace of travel.
Fortunately, during his recovery, Ah Rong discovered that Xu Menglong was heading to Jade Peak Mountain. Knowing the secret of Jade Peak Mountain, the Seventh Prince dared not delay and immediately set off.
But the Seventh Prince could never have imagined that this departure would be the end of his life.
The Seventh Prince didn't remember how long it took to get to Jade Peak Mountain. He waited at the foot of Jade Peak Mountain for three days and three nights until the fourth day when he finally saw his subordinates coming down the mountain to make purchases.
The Seventh Prince's injuries had mostly healed, and with Ah Rong taking care of him, it wasn't a problem for him to catch up with the others and go into the mountains.
Unlike Mu Fan, who led Gu Shuyan in circles to confuse them, the group led them straight to the cave.
The cave was dark and long, and the Seventh Prince dared not follow rashly, so he could only watch helplessly as the others entered the cave.
The next day, the Seventh Prince took Arong to the small town outside Yufeng Mountain, and rented a house in the town for convenience.
From then on, the Seventh Prince would go down the mountain every day to inquire about the situation, while Xu Menglong seemed to have settled on the mountain and never came down again.
Almost half a month had passed when the Seventh Prince finally couldn't resist taking Ah Rong into the cave. He thought that by venturing in, he would surely see Xu Menglong, but all that awaited him was a cold, impersonal tomb door.
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