Chapter 219: Have all your identities been exposed?
Li Yanmo briefly explained what had just happened. After listening, Leng Ningshuang subconsciously clicked her tongue.
"I see. Damn it—I was wondering why no one came to see our performance!"
Li Yanmo folded his arms across his chest and nodded in agreement.
To put it simply, Leng Ningshuang was performing the stone-breaking with her chest move just now, but unexpectedly, all the limelight was stolen by the bouquet-throwing move.
When Leng Ningshuang found that no one came to see the stone that broke her chest, she realized something was wrong and happened to bump into Li Yanmo who was escaping from the crowd.
"Come to think of it, you have reached the Golden Core stage?" Leng Ningshuang noticed something unusual about Li Yanmo and was surprised. "But why do you still have a spiritual energy vortex?"
"Oh, this is a new trick that Old Five has come up with," Li Yanmo patted his belly, and the golden elixir aura dissipated immediately, returning to a state above the initial stage of foundation building but not yet the middle stage.
Leng Ningshuang sighed, "Zhuge's mechanism is incredible."
"So who was that beautiful lady in palace dress just now? She seemed to be coming for me," Li Yanmo rubbed his neck and glanced at the direction where the embroidery ball was thrown. "How did she know I came back here? Did someone discover your actions?"
"Not sure, why don't you go back and take a look?"
"I don't want to fall into a trap. Let's go. We don't have that much time to spare."
Seeing Leng Ningshuang was in high spirits, Li Yanmo rolled his eyes.
The identity of the beautiful lady in palace dress is unknown, but she is definitely not low-ranking. She dared to use magic in the city, most likely to harm people in the Dayu Dynasty. She herself is in the Jindan stage, and at least one of the people accompanying her is in the Huashen stage.
Li Yanmo didn't want to take any risks.
"All right--"
Leng Ningshuang was a little discouraged, but the sudden appearance of the beauty in palace dress did make Leng Ningshuang feel more threatened.
Being able to track her down means she is of a high status.
Leng Ningshuang led Li Yanmo to a carriage and went to change clothes, while Li Yanmo began to observe the interior of the carriage.
This carriage is obviously also a rare treasure. The interior space is quite large, with a bed, a dressing table, a wardrobe, and a faint fragrance, just like the boudoir of a lady from a noble family.
Not long after, Leng Ningshuang, who had changed her clothes, reappeared in front of Li Yanmo.
Leng Ningshuang was wearing a long white dress that dragged on the ground. The wide hem of the dress was embroidered with pink patterns. She had a length of purple gauze on her arm. Her slender waist was tied with a purple brocade belt inlaid with jade.
The dashing heroic spirit was concealed, and a bit of weakness and gentleness appeared.
Since Leng Ningshuang didn't say anything, Li Yanmo didn't say anything either, and the two of them remained in a stalemate for a long time.
In the end, Li Yanmo couldn't hold it in anymore.
"…You are not ill, are you?"
Leng Ningshuang couldn't hold it in any longer. "Hey - please don't make me look like I'm doing something weird, okay? I'm the eldest daughter of the Leng family in Baidi City after all. It's normal for me to dress like this!"
“…”
"Well, I think it's weird too."
Under Li Yanmo's silent gaze, Leng Ningshuang held her forehead and sighed, then sat down opposite Li Yanmo, "Brother Li, even if you didn't contact me, I would have come to you for help."
Li Yanmo raised his eyebrows slightly, "The conflict between the noble marquis and the commoner marquis involves the Leng family?"
The Leng family has a very high status in Baidi City. It is said that the ancestor of the Leng family and the first Emperor Yu grew up wearing the same pants.
When the first Emperor Yu was conquering the four directions, the ancestor of the Leng family was a counselor beside Emperor Yu. After the first Emperor Yu became emperor, the Leng family became the prime minister. After tens of thousands of years, no one could shake the Leng family's position in the Great Yu Dynasty.
However, the Leng family and Emperor Yu Yu did have conflicts during this period.
For example, Emperor Yu wanted to pass the throne to the Leng family through the system of abdication, and he even gave it the beautiful name of "the emperor takes turns, and this year it's your turn."
If even the Leng family was dragged into the conflict between the noble marquises and the commoner marquises, then Emperor Yu might really have a problem.
"I guess so. Emperor Yu made me a princess a few days ago. My name is Princess Yongle. I don't know what happened to my father. He just told me to do as I see fit," Leng Ningshuang rubbed his forehead, looking distressed. "Since you want me to get involved in the conflict between noble marquises and commoner marquises, why don't you just make me a marquis?"
"Have you found out anything?" Li Yanmo took out two spiritual fruits from the ring, handed one to Leng Ningshuang, and started to eat it bite by bite.
"There are some... Prince Jifa was found to be the descendant of the ancient thief, the seventh prince was found to be the descendant of the ancient demon hunting sect, and the third princess was found to be the ancient killer..."
“Stop, stop, stop—”
The more Li Yanmo listened, the more he felt something was wrong, so he quickly stopped Leng Ningshuang.
"The identities of these princes and princesses have been exposed?!"
Li Yanmo was not surprised that Jifa's alias was exposed.
After all, when Chi Che arrived, Zhong Sanyuan had already noticed something unusual, and Ji Fa did take action at that time.
But why were the identities of other princes and princesses exposed?
If even the vests of the princes and princesses were exposed, wouldn't the fact that the Great Yu Dynasty used vests to fool the Taoist sect be exposed as well? !
The more Li Yanmo thought about it, the more his scalp tingled.
"Yes and no. I can only say that the situation in Baidi City is a little bit bad and chaotic. However, the conflict between the noble marquises and the commoner marquises has indeed diverted some attention," Leng Ningshuang took a bite of the fruit and said vaguely, "The Taoist sect is also ready to make a move. The most popular rumor recently is that the so-called great era is coming and a group of tigers are devouring dragons."
"They said something like the ancient sect was trying to erode the fate of Dayu from within, and that all the concubines in Emperor Yu's harem were spies planted by the ancient sect."
Li Yanmo had a strange expression. Although he didn't say anything, Leng Ningshuang knew what Li Yanmo was thinking and immediately said unhappily, "This time I'm not spreading rumors. This is true."
"Why do I feel like this is fake?" Li Yanmo muttered softly, then patted his face and focused his attention. "So, what are you going to do?"
Li Yanmo didn't have any plans of his own, but Leng Ningshuang had obviously investigated some things, so it would be safer to let Leng Ningshuang designate the plan.
"As for me, I will tell others that I am weak and sick..."
"Puh--cough! Cough, cough, cough! Please continue."
"I am a sickly young lady. This conflict was ultimately caused by the fight for the crown prince. As the eldest young lady of the Leng family, I am naturally at the center of this vortex, and you are my counselor."
Although Li Yanmo pretended to be calm, Leng Ningshuang could still see the corners of Li Yanmo's mouth trembling.
Although she was angry, Leng Ningshuang couldn't afford to hit Li Yanmo, so she had to pretend that she didn't care, but her speaking speed became much faster.
"No matter which prince the Leng family supports, I must first take action to win over those noble marquises and see if there are any outstanding talents. By the way, I will also test the situation of the commoner marquises."
"Some commoners have been behaving strangely recently."
"Emperor Yu is planning to hold a spring hunt recently. The princes of noble and commoner marquises will participate. Maybe we can find something."
Li Yanmo seemed to be thinking about something, "I almost understand."
"Oh, there's another person you need to meet first."
(End of this chapter)
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