Gu Linchao collected his thoughts and focused on reading the letter.
His gaze was fixed on the letter, on the rather unattractive handwriting.
Your Highness: This letter is as if we were meeting in person.
He lingered on the words "Prince" for a moment.
There was a bright red mark on it.
He initially thought it was some kind of paint stain.
Upon closer inspection, however, the color resembled that of lip rouge, and the shape somewhat resembled the shape of lips...
He paused, then suddenly seemed to remember something, a look of astonishment flashing in his deep black eyes.
This is... Nong Nong's lip print?!
His handsome face flushed.
That girl...
He pursed his lips, gathering his thoughts as he looked down.
A day apart feels like three autumns. I haven't seen Your Highness for two days now, and it feels like six autumns have passed. Sigh, I really miss Your Highness. Does Your Highness miss me?
Upon seeing this, Gu Linchao couldn't help but smile.
He could almost picture her lovely, lively expression as she wrote that letter.
He paused for a moment, then continued reading.
She wrote a letter that was three pages long. The contents of the letter were actually quite trivial, mostly about what happened after she went to the temple. She described almost everything in the letter.
She also said that she met her master, Abbot Xuanqing...
Since returning from the border, he has not had a chance to visit his elder, as he has not seen Abbot Xuanqing for a long time.
He should take some time to visit his father.
And that Si Luo...
Nong Nong's words implied that Si Luo was very strange.
He also said that he wanted to sow discord between Si Yi and him, and that he should be careful of Si Luo.
Back then, Si Luo was chosen by him to enter the palace as Gu Heng's study companion.
Si Luo is an exceptionally intelligent and tactful man. During his time as Gu Heng's study companion, he never made a mistake. However, in the past two years, his health has been poor, which has reduced his visits to the palace to accompany Gu Heng. Even so, Gu Heng still appointed him as the deputy commander of the Imperial Guards.
However, this was a sinecure, and Si Luo basically didn't do any work.
Unexpectedly, Gu Heng sent him to escort the Empress Dowager and her consorts on their trip to Huangming Temple to worship Buddha.
He tapped his fingers on the table, and after a moment, he summoned Wang Houde and asked him to investigate Si Luo's experiences over the years.
Wang Houde was somewhat surprised, "Si Luo?"
"Yes, he's back. This time, he's on the mission of escorting the Empress Dowager and the imperial concubines to Huangming Temple," Gu Linchao said.
Upon hearing this, Wang Houde became somewhat worried, "Then hasn't he and Si Yi already run into each other?"
Gu Linchao knew what he was worried about and said in a deep voice, "We're all in the capital. No matter what, we'll run into Si Yi. Si Luo is a complicated person. I feel that it's unusual that the Emperor suddenly summoned him back this time. You should investigate as soon as possible to see if Si Luo has really been recuperating all these years."
"Yes." Wang Houde collected his thoughts and immediately left.
Gu Linchao lowered his head and read the letter again, finally focusing his gaze on the signature at the end.
My beloved wife is so lovely...
A smile crept into his eyes. This girl was always so shameless. In the whole world, she was probably the only one who dared to write such words so openly in a letter.
But my beloved wife...
A slight smile played on his lips, and a tender feeling welled up inside him.
Even though that girl wasn't by his side, a single letter was enough to disturb his peace of mind.
He carefully put away the letter Wen Nongnong had written to him. Perhaps he should go to Huangming Temple tomorrow.
...
Huangming Temple.
Night fell quickly.
After washing up with the help of Lü Qiao, Wen Nong Nong lay down on the bed to sleep.
But then, the music that had disappeared last night suddenly started playing again.
"Why is that music playing again?" Green Fairy asked in surprise.
Wen Nongnong asked, "You heard it the other two nights too?"
Lü Qiao nodded, "I heard it, but it didn't ring again last night. I thought I wouldn't hear it again, but it rang again tonight."
Wen Nongnong sat up and listened carefully to the direction from which the music was coming.
"This time the music doesn't seem to be coming from the back mountain." She was a little surprised, but then she thought that the disciples of Huangming Temple were guarding the back mountain, so the person playing the music must have changed direction.
“Yes, it seems to be coming from the main hall.” Green Fairy listened carefully as well. “Why does this servant feel that the melody has become sharper, and it seems to be played very fast?”
Wen Nongnong nodded, listened for a while, then suddenly threw off the covers, got out of bed, put on her shoes, and then put on her coat and went out.
Not seeing Si Yi, she immediately went into the courtyard and looked towards the roof.
Kagami Tsukasa stood on the roof.
"Si Yi, that melody is playing again."
Si Yi glanced at her and then jumped down.
"Ignore it, just go to sleep."
Wen Nongnong: "..."
Well, she is indeed a heavy sleeper, she has no doubt about that.
Just as she was about to say that she was going to sleep, a gong suddenly rang out.
"Help! There's a fire..."
Wen Nongnong's expression changed. "What's going on?"
Si Yi jumped onto the roof, and came down a moment later with an indifferent expression. "The main hall is on fire, and the fire is huge."
Wen Nongnong was taken aback. "The main hall? Isn't that the Mahavira Hall over there?"
"Hmm," Si Yi replied indifferently.
Wen Nongnong asked in surprise, "How could a fire suddenly start? Wasn't there anyone guarding the place at night?"
“Of course, there are people guarding it,” Si Yi said, frowning.
"Then why..." Wen Nongnong paused, then suddenly widened her eyes and said, "The music just now came from over there. Could this fire be related to the musician?"
Si glanced at her but didn't say anything.
But Wen Nong Nong still understood what he meant. This kid was trying to say that she wasn't that stupid, right?
Forget it, she wasn't going to lower herself to argue with a little kid.
"Has anyone gone to put out the fire yet?" she asked with concern.
"Hmm." Si Yi remained indifferent.
Wen Nongnong frowned. "Should we go over and help?"
"No." Si Yi quickly interrupted her. "Don't go anywhere. This is obviously a mess deliberately created by the person behind it. He probably has more tricks up his sleeve, but we don't know what his goal is yet."
Wen Nongnong nodded, "Your analysis makes sense." But even so, with such a commotion in the main hall, she had no desire to sleep.
"Go to sleep. You can't help by standing here," Si Yi said bluntly.
Wen Nong Nong rolled her eyes at him, but didn't say anything.
But just as she was about to go inside, a panicked voice suddenly came from outside the courtyard, "Help! There's an assassin..."
Wen Nongnong was startled. She turned around and heard an even more panicked shout, "Something terrible has happened! The Empress Dowager has been assassinated..."
Immediately afterwards, a flurry of footsteps could be heard outside.
Her courtyard was not far from the Empress Dowager's, which is why the sounds from there could be heard so clearly.
"What happened?" she asked, somewhat surprised. "Aren't there imperial guards protecting them? How could they have sent assassins to infiltrate and carry out an assassination?"
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