Lin Yingxue accidentally met Xiao Cui on the street. At that time, she was passing by a remote alley. The young woman named Xiao Cui was dressed in a tattered dress, with a pale face and thin skin. She looked like a malnourished beggar.

At that time, Xiao Cui was squatting in the alley with disheveled face, and the situation was very bad - because there were another group of strong gangsters in the alley, trying to steal a jade pendant from Xiao Cui.

The strong are the prey of the jungle. Such things can be seen everywhere in the imperial city. Lin Yingxue felt a little sympathetic, but she did not intend to stop. She just glanced casually and planned to leave. However, when she glanced over, she accidentally found that the jade pendant that the woman tried her best to protect seemed to be of great value. Moreover, it seemed that this jade pendant should be very important to the beggar girl. Otherwise, the beggar girl would have already taken the jade pendant to exchange for silver, and it would not have attracted the attention of the gangsters in the city because she kept wearing the jade pendant.

Just as Lin Yingxue was thinking, the gangsters saw that the beggar was holding the jade pendant tightly and refused to let go, and they were afraid that the jade pendant would be broken by the way, so several people looked at each other, and a ruthless look flashed across someone's face. Then the man took out a dagger from his waist, looking at it, and he actually wanted to cut off the beggar's hand directly!

"Leng Yue, do it." Lin Yingxue couldn't stand it anymore when she saw this, so she turned around with a cold face and looked at Leng Yue beside her.

Leng Yue immediately understood and walked to the group of gangsters in just a few steps. She grabbed his wrist tightly before the man who was taking action.

"Ah!" The man who was caught in his wrist felt that his hand seemed to be pinched by a pair of iron clamps, and it felt like his bones were about to be crushed by the person in front of him. He screamed in pain, and even his facial features became distorted due to the pain.

"Where did the little girls come from? They actually dare to care about my little business. I think you are impatient!" Seeing this, several other gangsters hurriedly shouted and rushed towards Leng Yue.

Seeing this, Leng Yue swept her eyes and even her expression turned around, she knocked down the people who rushed over. Before they even saw how Leng Yue took action, they fell to the ground and started to wail.

"Why don't you get out of here!" Lin Yingxue walked up and shouted softly. Seeing that it was no match for Leng Yue, the gangsters looked at the jade pendant in Xiao Cui's hand unwillingly, and then they quickly got up and ran away without a trace.

"Are you okay?" Lin Yingxue squatted down and helped the girl beggar up. The girl looked up timidly at Lin Yingxue. Seeing that Lin Yingxue was dressed in luxury, perhaps because she was afraid that the dust and blood on her body would stain Lin Yingxue's clothes, so she quickly took back her hand and took two steps back to separate her from Lin Yingxue.

"I'm fine, thank you for helping me!" The beggar said as he bowed deeply to Lin Yingxue twice.

"A small matter." Lin Yingxue felt relieved when she saw that the beggar girl was not seriously injured. "This is some money for you to solve your food and clothing for a few days. You should also pay attention to this few days. If you carry such a precious jade pendant, those gangsters will look for you sooner or later."

Lin Yingxue said as she took out some broken silver from her purse and stuffed it into the beggar's hand.

The beggar was a little unwilling to take it at first, but after hesitating for a while, he held the broken silver in his hand. "Thank you..." Looking up, Lin Yingxue seemed to be leaving, the beggar quickly stepped forward and said anxiously: "Miss, wait, I want to ask for a way!"

The beggar was anxious and directly reached out and grabbed Lin Yingxue's wrist. At the same time, Leng Yue's knife-like gaze also swept over. The beggar was startled and quickly put his hand back, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it..." Seeing that Lin Yingxue had a dirty handprint on her well-being clothes, the beggar couldn't help but feel even more guilty.

"It's okay, where do you want to go?" Lin Yingxue glanced at her dirty sleeves lightly, and her expression did not change at all.

"I...I want to go to the Zhao Prince's Mansion..." The beggar stammered, "I asked other people in the city, but they all said they didn't know..."

"King Zhao?" Lin Yingxue repeated these two words, and a look of confusion appeared on her face. Seeing this, Leng Yue, who was beside her, hurriedly approached Lin Yingxue's ear and whispered something. Only then did Lin Yingxue's face reveal a trace of understanding.

"King Zhao passed away many years ago. What are you looking for King Zhao?" Lin Yingxue then began to look at the woman in front of her carefully. Although the woman described as embarrassed, she could still see that the person in front of her was handsome. Although the eyes of the person in front of her were a little flashing, her expression was a little firm... In short, although she was not a very outstanding girl, she also had some advantages.

However, after hearing Lin Yingxue's words, the woman's face quickly dimmed, "...Is it... I have passed away..." The woman murmured to herself, her expression full of disappointment.

Seeing this, Lin Yingxue became a little curious, "What is your relationship with King Zhao? Why do you want to find King Zhao?"

Seeing Lin Yingxue staring at her with a puzzled look, the woman hesitated for a moment before saying, "This matter is a long story. In short, I was entrusted by a sister to find her father. She said that her father was King Zhao, and she also said that as long as I showed this jade pendant to the people of King Zhao's mansion, they would give me some benefits... Who knows..."

While the woman said, she fell to the ground in dismay, "Wan'er, I have tried my best, but your father has passed away. Don't blame me. I can't keep this jade pendant. At that time, I can only treat it..." When the woman said this, her eyes suddenly lit up again.

She got up from the ground and walked to Lin Yingxue and begged, "Miss, you are a good person. I think you might as well buy my jade pendant. Wan'er said that this jade pendant is very valuable! You will never suffer any loss if you buy it!"

The woman held the jade pendant in her hand, with hope on her face.

Lin Yingxue took the jade pendant with a puzzled look and looked at it. As the woman said, the jade pendant had a good texture, but there were many good things in her room, and she did not lack this jade pendant.

Just as Lin Yingxue was planning to return the jade pendant to the woman, Leng Yue came to Lin Yingxue's ear and whispered: "Master, Prince Zhao had a daughter named Murong Wan'er when she was middle-aged, but she was abducted when she was four years old. At that time, Prince Zhao sent people to search everywhere, and the notice on the cloth said that the princess was carrying a jade pendant that could prove her identity."

It is unknown whether this jade pendant is the one written on the notice, but since the woman in front of her was holding this jade pendant to help the owner of the jade pendant recognize her relatives, we have to investigate the matter here.

"Come with me." Lin Yingxue looked around, "It's inconvenient to speak, so I'll take you to the inn first."

"Okay!" The woman finally had a smile on her face when she saw that there was something wrong.

After Lin Yingxue took the woman to the inn to settle down, she learned from the woman that the owner of the jade pendant was seventeen years old and named Zhang Wan'er, but this surname was changed with the family after Zhang Wan'er was abducted to that family. As for Zhang Wan'er's original surname, no one knows.

"...I am the maid of that family. My name is Xiaocui, which is about the same age as Wan'er. After Wan'er passed by, she cried and made a fuss all day long, saying that she was the princess, but no one believed it. Later, she was beaten and scolded by the adopted master several times, so she never heard Wan'er talk about this again..."

"Originally, Wan'er was sent to the Zhang family and did hard work like me, but later, when the young master saw that Wan'er gave birth to a beautiful child, she... just... In short, Wan'er suffered more than me. Moreover, the young master originally wanted to let Wan'er be a concubine, but the boss insisted that Wan'er was born too beautiful and could not take this concubine, so Wan'er kept doing the work of a servant and was often beaten and scolded by the young lady..."

"I have been with such a long time for more than ten years. Wan'er has never been in good health. She still couldn't hold on some time ago... I went... Before Wan'er died, she said she didn't want to see me and end up with her in the future, so she gave me this jade pendant and asked me to go to the imperial city to look for relatives. She said that she gave this jade pendant to the people of the Zhaowang Mansion. The people of the Zhaowang Mansion would definitely not treat me badly..."

So Xiao Cui escaped from the Zhang family with this jade pendant and traveled through mountains and rivers to the imperial city. Unexpectedly, Prince Zhao and Princess Zhao passed away one after another two years after Princess Wan'er was abducted. Now, not many people know about Prince Zhao.

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