Author: Bai Xiaoyuan

That night, Yuzhu told Shen Lingxi the exact conversation between Consort Cui and Eunuch Chang.

Shen Lingxi thought about it and went directly to the east wing.

However, Chu Yan was not in the room.

Perhaps he had made an explanation before he left. The embroiderer on duty in the courtyard came forward and said, "If you want to see your highness, please come with me."

Shen Lingxi thought for a while and followed up.

The embroiderer led her out of the courtyard to the east, passing through a small garden with dense vegetation, which was the easternmost wall of the princess's mansion.

In the corner of the tall wall, an inconspicuous wooden door is hidden under vines.

The wooden door was half open, letting in a little light.

Shen Lingxi passed through the wooden door and saw a winding path winding among the vegetation.

Along the road there were about a dozen embroiderers, holding wind lanterns with solemn expressions and nailing them on both sides like nails.

Turning around the rockery at the end of the path, you can see a three-story attic rising from the ground. Under the eaves of each floor of the attic, there are a row of yellow lanterns tied with paper, and cinnabar is used to draw talismans on the lamps.

The lantern swayed in the night wind, as if someone was waving.

It's a soul-calming lamp.

This is Prince An's Mansion.

That attic was where King An hanged himself.

Shen Lingxi did not expect that when she came out of the corner door of the eldest princess's mansion, she would be so close to the attic.

The embroiderer led the way and took her up to the attic.

Unlike last time, the attic was lit with white candles. The empty attic looked even more lonely and desolate in the night because of the dim lights.

At this moment, Shen Lingxi stopped here again, feeling a sense of distress in her heart.

She really couldn't imagine how Prince An, that pure-minded young man, had spent these endless nights every day in the two years since his death.

Chu Yan was standing in front of the railing on the west side, wearing a moon-white undershirt, her black hair fixed with a white jade hairpin, her long body erect and silent.

His complexion looked better than the previous two days. However, there was still a hint of weakness and fatigue between his eyebrows.

At first glance, it seems that he has changed back to "Ningrokuro", but he has a little more noble and distant temperament than Ningrokuro.

The conversation with the eldest princess the night before seemed not to have the slightest impact on him.

At that time, even though he heard that the emperor had wanted to change the throne three times in the past few years, he did not even frown.

Shen Lingxi couldn't help but wonder whether in the heart of the emperor's grandson, he didn't care about the position of crown prince at all, or whether he felt that no one could take this position away from him.

As if hearing Shen Lingxi's footsteps, Chu Yan turned his head, his eyes met hers, and a look of surprise flashed through his cold starry eyes.

But then, the look of surprise was replaced by bright light, "You came just in time."

His finger bones were slightly bent, and he casually hooked Shen Lingxi, motioning for her to come closer. He stared at the corner of the railing, and with his slender fingers, he tapped the mark that Shen Lingxi had discovered before, "Look carefully, what's wrong with this mark?" different."

Shen Lingxi looked puzzled, picked up the candle on the candlestick nearby, and leaned over to observe carefully.

Those were the traces of hook claws, which she had touched before.

However, after lighting it with a candle today, Shen Lingxi discovered that the traces were different from ordinary hooks and claws.

The mark of the hook in the middle is deeper than that of the two sides, which means that the claw in the middle of the hook is sharper.

Shen Lingxi had seen such a hook and claw, which could not only be used to fly over walls and walls, but also used to kill people.

It is one of the weapons commonly used by Yun Kingdom soldiers.

The eldest princess's maidservant is definitely not from the Yun Kingdom.

In other words, the person who threw Yuzhu's body into Prince An's Mansion was indeed not the eldest princess's family.

Chu Yan's gaze kept falling on Shen Lingxi's profile.

Seeing the sudden look in her clear eyes, he knew that she had figured out the mystery.

She can control corpses and can see through the weapons of Yun Kingdom's dead soldiers at a glance.

Chu Yan's eyes flashed slightly, and he narrowed his eyes and asked, "What did you find?"

"The person who dumped the body is from Yunjiang and has nothing to do with the eldest princess." Shen Lingxi answered calmly without thinking.

If it were before, she would have deliberately covered it up and pretended not to know.

But now, if you want to win the trust of the person in front of you, you can only be honest with each other, hoping to exchange sincerity for sincerity.

Shen Lingxi stood up straight, put the candle back to its original position, raised her clear eyes, and smiled slightly at the corner of her lips, "Since His Highness has already seen it, he still wants to test it, because he wants to know what the little girl knows? "

Chu Yan didn't expect that she would be so frank and direct.

His eyes focused on the faint pear dimple at the corner of her lips for a moment, and then he moved away lightly, "It's not necessary to know anything. It's enough to know whether the girl can lie to others."

When Shen Lingxi heard this, he knew that the words she blurted out that night, "You said you would believe me..." gave him insight into the fact that he had long known that he was "Ning Liulang".

Shen Lingxi blinked, "Not long after I first met His Highness, when did I ever deceive His Highness?"

She deliberately emphasized the word "first acquaintance" with a very innocent expression.

It means that when he used "Ning Rokuro" to get close to him, it was also a half-hearted deception.

Chu Yan pursed her thin lips slightly.

When he approached her in the first place, his purpose was indeed not simple.

However, her origins are a mystery and she is not innocent.

But now, there is no point in talking about these things.

"There is no need to mention the past. In the future..."

"In the future, I will definitely tell His Highness everything I know." Shen Lingxi hurriedly expressed her loyalty, "I will never do anything to deceive Your Highness."

After saying that, she smiled and saluted him, "I haven't thanked Your Highness for your trust in me these past two days."

On the basis of the collapse of trust, he chose to believe the "ghost things" she told him one after another, and even took the initiative to cover up for her.

Shen Lingxi felt that she should say thank you to him.

"There's no need to thank me." Chu Yan looked away and said in a calm tone, "I'm just keeping what I said before."

Shen Lingxi was slightly startled.

Then she thought of what he said to her when he was "Ning Liulang": "Although I don't believe what you say, I believe you."

She didn't think so at the time, but she didn't expect that he actually kept his promise.

From this point of view, since he is a good gentleman, I believe that life will not be too difficult for my little aunt in his hands.

In the future, she would have a little more confidence in taking her little aunt away from him.

Thinking like this, Shen Lingxi looked at Chu Yan with an increasingly kind and gentle look.

I am even more concerned about the case in front of me.

"Since His Highness discovered that the person who dumped the body was not the eldest princess, he would not be the Prince Consort's person. After all, the ice cellar in the East Palace was kept by the Zhao family to deal with His Highness in the future. How could he expose it easily? It was not them, and Who could have deliberately dumped the body here, and what’s the purpose behind it?”

Chu Yan said meaningfully: "No matter what the purpose of the person who dumped the body is, one thing is certain. The other party must know the relationship between Yuzhu and the eldest princess. The eldest princess will definitely investigate the matter because of Yuzhu's death, and I will not let go of the person who laid the trap in the East Palace. As long as we go to investigate, Duke Wei will definitely not be able to escape. The place where the body was dumped can sit on the fish platform and watch the show. Maybe after the incident is over, we can take the opportunity to pick up some benefits. , the abacus is a shrewd one."

These words made Shen Lingxi instantly think of the scene when the eldest princess specially disguised herself as the aunt in charge of the Jade Tan Palace and went to Fu'an Hall to express her condolences.
Chapter completed!