Seeing Mo Xiang's pretty face turn pale, Ji Lingxue patted her shoulder and said with a smile: "What are you afraid of? I, your master, will protect you."
Mo Xiang's mouth twitched. "Master, the emperor will definitely not blame you if he does something wrong. But we small fry will suffer..."
An Ge looked at Mo Xiang with sympathy. He and his master both escaped death, and the emperor could only take action against Mo Xiang if he was angry. "Mo Xiang, how about you do the same as me and die in front of the emperor once?"
Ji Lingxue shook her head and said, "It's okay to use the same trick once or twice, but to use it three times, do you think Xiao Yichen is stupid?"
An Ge lowered her head and stopped talking. Ji Lingxue turned around, picked up a box of rouge and applied it to Mo Xiang's face. Half of her face was covered with a red birthmark. When others saw Mo Xiang, they would notice her birthmark first and no longer pay attention to anything else.
Ji Lingxue picked up a brush and began to paint a black mole on the other half of Mo Xiang's face. This way, no one would stare at Mo Xiang's face.
"Mission accomplished!" Ji Lingxue put down her pen and admired her achievement with satisfaction.
Mo Xiang blinked, picked up the bronze mirror beside her and took a look. She was almost crying because of her ugly face. Master, you are so talented!
When Ruge returned to the post station, the team of elite soldiers had just searched there. Ji Lingxue was well prepared. After searching for a while without any results, the elite soldiers said goodbye and left. As soon as the elite soldiers disappeared, Mo Xiang let out a long sigh.
There was a knock on the door, and Mo Xiang was so frightened that she choked and coughed several times. Ruge said, "Sister, who is there?"
After spending these few days with Ji Lingxue, he changed the way he addressed Ji Lingxue from "Xue'er" to "sister". He had to admit that this name was very intimate and he liked it.
Ji Lingxue opened the door and Ruge stood at the door with bright eyes. Although she smelled of alcohol, she was not drunk at all. Ruge glanced at Mo Xiang and smiled at Ji Lingxue, "Sister is really smart."
Ji Lingxue smiled awkwardly, "Brother, you are too kind. Is it okay to play so much?"
Ruge shook her head, and he just wanted to look at her, knowing that she was there, to feel at ease.
After Ruge left, Mo Xiang said, "Master, Master Ruge is so nice." If it weren't for his support, he would have been thrown into the sky prison and awaited interrogation.
The next day, Ji Lingxue got up late, and Ruge did not rush her, so Chi Feng and others who came out to greet her were left outside in the northwest wind.
When Ji Lingxue went downstairs, she always felt that the atmosphere was a little wrong. Ruge was sitting at the dining table, which was full of her favorite dishes. Chi Feng was sitting opposite him with his arms folded across his chest, expressing his dissatisfaction with him with his actions.
Hearing the footsteps, Ruge looked up and waved at Ji Lingxue, "I knew you were up at this time, the dishes were just served and are still hot."
Chi Feng looked at Ji Lingxue strangely, "Is this the princess who is being married off to a foreign country?"
"No." Ji Lingxue and Ruge said in unison.
Ruge: It's true that I want a marriage, but I won't send Ji Lingxue to Xiao Yichen's arms again. He wants to find brave Dayan men for Ji Lingxue. Dayan men are generous and protect their wives. Each man only marries one wife, unlike Dongqi who has three wives and four concubines.
Chi Feng said "Oh", fortunately it wasn't the case. He didn't even like the princess's appearance, let alone the noble emperor.
Ji Lingxue didn't know what Chi Feng was thinking. She turned around and smiled at Ruge. It seemed that Ruge understood her.
After breakfast, Ruge took Ji Lingxue's hand and got on the carriage, and was escorted into the city by Chi Feng. The streets were noisy, and the people in the city were blocking both sides of the streets, craning their necks to look at the person in the carriage. They heard that this was the second prince of the Great Yan Kingdom, who came to marry a foreign prince. Unfortunately, the curtain of the carriage was always down, and their curiosity could not be satisfied.
Chi Feng sat on a tall horse, occasionally looking sideways in the direction of the carriage. It was the first time for the Princess of Dayan to enter the capital of Dongqi, but her accent just now was very authentic? Although she only said two words, he always felt that something was strange.
In the carriage, Ruge said, "I will go to the palace to pay my respects later. Will you come with me or rest at the post station?"
Ji Lingxue said: "Let's go into the palace. I am more familiar with the palace than you."
Ruge smiled lightly, "I'm afraid you are worried about some people and want to go and see them." The excuse is so bad that it can be seen through at a glance.
Ji Lingxue coughed and said, "No, I'm just worried that you, brother, are in danger in the palace."
Ruge smiled and said nothing more.
Chi Feng's voice rang out from outside the carriage: "Second Prince, Princess, do you want to go to the post station to rest for a while, or come with me to the palace to face the emperor?"
Ruge said, "No need, I rested enough last night. It's more important to meet the emperor."
Chi Feng nodded, "Okay, I'll do as the Second Prince says." After that, he turned the carriage around and gave a few instructions to the guards leading the way, and the team slowly moved towards the direction of the palace.
In the imperial study of the palace, Xiao Yichen was holding a memorial and listening to his subordinates report that Ruge had entered the city, accompanied by a princess.
Xiao Yichen nodded, "Has Mo Xiang not been found yet?"
A little girl with no kung fu skills sent out so many elite soldiers, but after spending a whole night, they couldn't even find a single person.
The guard leader said, "Your Majesty, Mo Xiang has not been found yet. The elite soldiers have searched the area around Guanyin Temple for 800 miles, but they haven't seen her. Logically, the Queen's body is still warm, so she should continue to guard the body in Guanyin Temple. How come she suddenly disappeared? Could it be that the remnants of the uncle are looking for revenge?"
Xiao Yichen sneered, and the temperature around him dropped several degrees in an instant. The commander of the guards lowered his head, his fingers trembling slightly. The cold air pressure was so strong that the emperor got angry very easily now.
Xiao Yichen said, "I just want to move the queen's coffin into the imperial mausoleum. Why are you not satisfied with everything? Keep looking for it for me."
The guard leader wiped the sweat off his forehead and said, "Yes, I will go right away."
Xiao Yichen asked, "The queen's coffin has been dug out and is now placed in the temple?"
"Yes, Your Majesty." The commander of the guards bent even lower.
Xiao Yichen stood up and ordered, "Go to Guanyin Temple!"
The commander of the guards frowned, "But the second prince of Dayan is about to enter the palace?" Isn't it a bad time to leave the city
Xiao Yichen waved his hand and said, "Let him wait inside the palace after he enters it." Ruge cares about Ji Lingxue the most, and believes that he can understand her feelings at the moment.
So, after Ji Lingxue and Ruge entered the palace together, they were told by the eunuch that the emperor was resting. The truth was that he was leaving the palace, but the royal family had to save face, so they naturally would not say it clearly, and had to find a gorgeous excuse.
Ruge and Ji Lingxue were arranged to rest in a side hall, and the eunuch left.
Seeing a chess game on the coffee table, Ruge suddenly became interested. "Sister, would you like to play a game of chess with me? Since the emperor is resting, he will not meet us in the short term. It's still early, so why don't we play chess to kill time?" As he said that, he sat down on the futon in front of the coffee table.
Ji Lingxue raised her eyebrows, sat down opposite Ruge, pointed at the chessboard and said, "I don't know how to play Go." You are making things difficult for me. It would be shameful even if I win against someone who doesn't know how to play Go.
"It's okay, I'll teach you." Ruge looked very patient and made a gesture of invitation, indicating Ji Lingxue to choose the chess piece.
Ji Lingxue picked up the white piece, picked up one and placed it on the chessboard, looking relaxed.
Ruge smiled, picked up the black piece and placed it next to Ji Lingxue's white piece and said: "Why don't we guess, what did he do?" He was naturally referring to Xiao Yichen.
Ji Lingxue: "You are asking even though you already know the answer. The eunuch said he was resting." He chose to rest in broad daylight when they entered the palace. It was obviously intentional. Fortunately, the emperor has been replaced by a new one, otherwise she would have begun to suspect that there was some conspiracy behind his deliberate neglect.
Ruge said, "You believe this, but I don't."
Ji Lingxue shrugged, continued to place a move, looked around, and made sure that no one was eavesdropping before saying, "Even if the truth is revealed, he can't find Mo Xiang, so he can only sulk by himself."
Ruge dropped the ball and looked up at Ji Lingxue, "Do you think he will doubt you?"
Ji Lingxue lowered her head to look at the Dayan-style clothes on her body, shook her head and said, "I won't expose myself." If she couldn't leave Xiao Yichen, she wouldn't have faked her death to leave him.
"Then I feel relieved." Ruge smiled. Xiao Yichen had hurt his sister so much, so this time he would protect her to the end.
Ruge's guess was absolutely right. In the Guanyin Temple, Xiao Yichen couldn't help but open the coffin lid. Although he knew it was unreasonable and disrespectful to the deceased, he had missed him for half a month. Even though he knew there would be a corpse with an ugly and weird face in the coffin, he still wanted to take a look.
But he didn't expect that there was a secret hidden in the coffin. Apart from a few clothes that Ji Lingxue used to wear, he didn't even see a bone. It was just a cenotaph next to Guanyin Temple.
Mo Xiang disappeared inexplicably, and the clothes in the coffin made him doubt something. Xiao Yichen became more and more angry and sent people to the mass grave. Sure enough, just as he thought, there was no body of An Ge in the mass grave.
Could it be that Ji Lingxue is still alive? She is good at using poison, and the person who makes poison might also be able to develop a drug that can cause fake death.
Xiao Yichen felt like he had been tricked and went to Prince Chen's Mansion in a very bad mood. Although he had moved into the palace, the furniture and furnishings in the mansion were still the same as before and were cleaned spotlessly by the servants.
All the people guarding the palace were replaced by his confidants. Xiao Yichen came to the side courtyard with full of thoughts. This was the place where Ji Lingxue lived for the last time. After the side courtyard was damaged by lightning, he found skilled craftsmen to repair it. The layout here is exactly the same as where Ji Lingxue lived before, except that all the old furniture has been replaced with new ones.
The wooden box under the big bed still contained the poisons that Ji Lingxue had researched. He asked Bai Mo to examine them. They were all poisons, a total of 300 kinds. But they could not find the poison that Ji Lingxue had taken to commit suicide.
Xiao Yichen found a chair and sat down, just sitting there motionless. The sun gradually set and dusk enveloped the earth.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty?" The eunuch stood at the door and called out to Xiao Yichen cautiously.
Xiao Yichen collected his thoughts and asked, "Have you found Mo Xiang or An Ge?"
The eunuch knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging for mercy, "Your Majesty, please forgive me!"
Xiao Yichen stood up and looked at the night sky with a few stars hanging in it and said, "It's so late... These two people must be hiding. It's not easy to find them..."
The eunuch didn't dare to make a sound until Xiao Yichen said he was going back to the palace. Then he slowly got up from the ground and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
(End of this chapter)