Ji Lingxue glanced at the complaining Ji Yuqing, swallowed the last piece of pumpkin pie, and then said, "Sister, if you want the secret guard to tell the prince, why bother telling me?"
Ji Yuqing raised her eyebrows, "Is sister's secret guard really given by the prince? I heard that her origin is unknown, but her martial arts skills are very high. Her real identity is the prince of the Great Yan Kingdom..."
Ji Lingxue stood up and said, "Sister, what do you want to say? Xiao Yichen already knew Ruge's identity. Ruge has always been doing her duty as a secret guard beside her. Ji Yuqing is trying to sow discord between them.
Ji Yuqing covered her mouth and smiled, "Sister, why are you so nervous? Do you have other thoughts about the prince of the Great Yan Kingdom... Oh, I was wrong. It's a deposed prince. He is lurking in my sister's identity for a purpose that is not simple..."
Ji Lingxue rolled her eyes at the sky. She and Ruge had a pure master-servant relationship. Ruge had saved her life and risked her life for her. She would always remember this favor and would repay it.
Ji Lingxue said: "Sister, don't talk nonsense about things that are completely untrue."
Ji Yuqing smiled confidently, "I'm not talking nonsense, I have evidence... Sister, do you want to know?"
Ji Lingxue narrowed her eyes. She hated being threatened like this the most. "I am upright and I don't care about your so-called evidence." After saying that, she turned around and was about to leave.
Then I heard Ji Yuqing speak slowly behind me, "Sister, do you know why the prince let go of the former crown prince of Dayan who is beside you?"
Ji Lingxue clenched her fist, took a deep breath, turned and looked at Ji Yuqing, "What is the evidence in your hand?"
Ji Yuqing said, "It's a letter from Ruge. He left in a hurry and didn't have time to give it to you in person. So he put it under the tiles of your house. This letter tells a secret about you. If you don't want it, I'll burn it later."
Ji Lingxue saw Ji Yuqing approaching the candlestick and pretending to burn something, so she quickly stopped him, "Wait..."
Ji Yuqing turned to look at Ji Lingxue and said with a smile: "It seems that sister believes what I said. I can reveal a little bit. Ruge found out that your real identity is not from our Ji family... Back then, father coveted your mother's beauty, so he gave you the identity of Miss Ji. If you don't believe it, you can go back and ask my father."
Ji Lingxue: “…”
"Then let's make a deal. I want the internal map of the palace in exchange for the secret that Ruge told you. Oh, by the way, if you don't come soon, I will send these papers to the palace. At that time, whether you live or die will be decided by the emperor... Hehe..."
Ji Lingxue frowned, looking at Ji Yuqing who was grinning so hard that her teeth were showing, and it seemed like she wasn't lying. Her identity... She was a little curious, really damn curious.
Ji Lingxue pretended not to care and said: "Ji Yuqing, I know you have been jealous of me since you were a child. Only you can make up such a lie. If you want me to do bad things for you, you'd better give up." After that, she turned and left.
Although she turned around very calmly, she still had more questions in her mind, which made her feel a little uncomfortable.
Until dawn, Ji Lingxue lay on the table in a trance, letting herself be annoyed by Ji Yuqing. The damn woman said that the mystery of her life experience was related to her life, which made her think about it for the whole night.
Mo Xiang pushed the door open and was shocked to see Ji Lingxue with dark circles under her eyes. She almost knocked over the basin in her hand. "Princess, what happened to you? Could it be that the gold you buried was stolen?" Mo Xiang really couldn't imagine what situation would make Ji Lingxue stay awake all night.
Ji Lingxue glanced at Mo Xiang and said listlessly, "It's dawn so soon, I need to catch up on some sleep. You go guard the door and don't let anyone disturb me." Then he pushed Mo Xiang out and closed the door.
Mo Xiang looked at the closed door in front of him, totally confused. What happened to the princess
Mo Xiang obediently stood at the door like a stone sculpture. In the blink of an eye, the sun was at its zenith and the morning passed.
Xiao Yichen came in the sunshine, and Mo Xiang immediately stepped forward to stop him and said, "My Lord, the princess is still catching up on her sleep in the room, you'd better not disturb her rest."
Xiao Yichen looked up at the sky and twitched his lips: "Why are you still sleeping? Has the princess had breakfast and lunch?"
Mo Xiang shook her head.
Xiao Yichen walked around Mo Xiang and pushed the door open. Looking at the empty room, he turned around and asked, "Where is the princess?"
Mo Xiang pointed at the empty window and opened her mouth to eat the wind. Why is the princess gone? !
Xiao Yichen asked: "Didn't the princess tell you where she went?"
Mo Xiang shook his head. When he came here early this morning, he felt that the princess was strange and was pushed out of the room before he could ask her any questions.
Xiao Yichen called out the secret guard to ask, and the secret guard shook his head helplessly and said: "An Ge took the princess out of the palace. His lightness skills are better than ours. He was able to follow her halfway... but then lost her..."
Xiao Yichen raised his hand and rubbed his aching forehead, and suddenly felt that it was a wrong decision to give the best secret guard leader around him to Ji Lingxue.
At this moment, Ji Lingxue was sitting in a teahouse drinking tea in men's clothes. She looked toward the window and saw a woman dressed as Shiso walking on the street with a basket. Ji Lingxue shouted downstairs.
Zi Su looked up and saw that it was Ji Lingxue. She smiled and walked into the teahouse.
Ji Lingxue asked Zi Su to sit down and asked, "How have you been lately?"
Zi Su lowered her head and nodded, "Thank you for your concern, Princess. I am doing well."
Ji Lingxue asked again: "You have your hair in a bun, are you married?"
Zi Su nodded. It turned out that after Xiao Yichen sent her out of the palace, she had nowhere to go. Her family arranged a marriage for her. She married a butcher and now she was living a menial life of cooking and mending clothes every day. She did not have the leisurely and comfortable life she had in the palace.
Ji Lingxue nodded, took out a bag of silver from her sleeve and handed it to Zi Su. Zi Su couldn't refuse, so she accepted it.
Zi Su looked up at Ji Lingxue and said, "Princess, in fact, at the palace banquet that day, the prince was drugged and nothing happened to me. He thought that the princess deliberately set him up, so he made me his concubine in anger."
Ji Lingxue was stunned. Many things had already passed and she almost forgot them.
Then Zi Su continued, "Every time the prince is ignored by you, the princess, he will come to sit with me and ask me about your childhood. Princess, the prince is sincere to you... If the concubine hadn't put drugs in your rice bowl, you and the prince would have become lovers long ago."
Ji Lingxue didn't expect that her bag of silver would make Zi Su say so many true words. After all, she was Ji Yuqing's dowry maid and had been with her since she was a child.
Ji Lingxue asked again: "Zi Su, do you know why the prince married my sister?"
Zi Su lowered her head, and after a moment's hesitation, she said, "The princess became idiot after being drugged. The prince married you because of the influence of the empress dowager and your family. After that, Master Ji wanted to send the concubine to the palace. The concubine refused to lie and said that she had an affair with the prince, so Master Ji allowed the concubine to enter the Chen Palace."
Ji Lingxue twitched her lips. It turned out that Ji Yuqing had so many thoughts in her mind. She had always liked Xiao Yichen to the point of disregarding her own face and reputation.
Zi Su thought for a moment and said, "Concubine Ruchen had a chat with the prince all night before, and they reached a consensus. As for what they talked about, I don't know. Concubine Ruchen never really believed in me, so she didn't let me know too much."
Ji Lingxue nodded, Zi Su bowed respectfully to her and turned to leave.
An Ge floated in from the window dressed in black. She glanced at Zi Su's back and said, "How come the princess met Zi Su here?" The prince sent Zi Su back to her hometown, so why is she still in the capital
"Maybe the capital is a small place, so we met like this. What did you find out?" Ji Lingxue asked, changing the subject.
An Ge nodded and said, "Princess's mother Liu Mei'e was the most talented woman in the capital 20 years ago. She was both talented and beautiful, and had her own ideas. She once left home to travel to Dayan. Later, your grandfather Liu Yufang sent servants to find Liu Mei'e. At that time, your father Ji Baichuan fell in love with your mother and personally proposed to her three times. This love touched Liu Mei'e."
Ji Lingxue said "oh", she didn't expect that her father was so infatuated with her mother back then. Unfortunately, Feng appeared and her family was broken.
An Ge continued, "Many people say that Liu Mei'e met a man she loved in Dayan and got engaged to him. If it weren't for your grandfather interfering, breaking up the lovers and bringing Liu Mei'e back, this rumor would have to be confirmed by going to Dayan."
Ji Lingxue nodded. It seemed that Ji Yuqing did not lie this time. It was normal for Ruge, who lived in Dayan, to know about her mother. It was just that the guy didn't tell her in person and leave a letter. Now people used it as a handle to threaten her.
Ji Lingxue stayed in the teahouse for a whole day. It started snowing again. Seeing that Ji Lingxue had no intention of returning home, An Ge did not dare to ask more questions and just stood by and watched silently.
Ji Lingxue glanced out the window and murmured, "It's snowing. An Ge, go buy some roasted sweet potatoes and bring them back to the palace to eat later."
An Ge responded and turned to go downstairs to buy it.
During this break, Ji Lingxue touched her stomach and went downstairs to find the toilet. There was no toilet in the teahouse, but it was built next to the vegetable garden outside the backyard.
Ji Lingxue walked out of the toilet comfortably, and suddenly heard some movement in the corner not far away. Out of curiosity, she walked over quickly.
There were a few pools of blood dripping in the corner of the teahouse. Ji Lingxue looked up along the bloodstains and saw a bloody corpse hanging upside down on a tree branch. There was a thin layer of snow covering the body, and its long hair was flying in the air, sticking to a piece of snowflakes.
Faceless female corpse!
Ji Lingxue was shocked. Anyone would be horrified if they saw a bloody corpse on a snowy evening.
"Princess, so you are here." An Ge appeared silently behind Ji Lingxue and suddenly spoke. He was holding a paper bag of hot roasted sweet potatoes in his hand, but at this moment the aroma of the sweet potatoes was shrouded in a strange atmosphere.
An Ge looked at the strange female corpse on the tree behind Ji Lingxue, "This..."
“Ah! Someone’s been murdered… Someone’s been murdered…” The sound of a kettle falling to the ground was heard not far away. A man dressed as a servant sat down on the ground. After realizing what happened, he ran out shouting.
Ji Lingxue shrugged and said to An Ge, "Notify the prince to come over..." He has been investigating the case of missing girls recently. The woman hanging on the tree doesn't look very old, so she might be one of the missing girls.
(End of this chapter)