All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Chapter 78
The figure in the moon-white robe is clearly Chu Yan disguised as "Ning Liulang"!

At this moment, King An's soul was at the railing. If Chu Yan took two more steps this way, King An might be bounced away by the evil spirit around him.

"Don't come here!" Shen Lingxi hurriedly shouted: "I haven't finished my ritual, so don't step on my formation."

Mu Huaian:? ? ?

Chu Yan: ...

At this moment, King An behind Shen Lingxi also recognized Chu Yan, and let out a low voice, "Huh? Brother Six? Why did Brother Six come here?"

Seeing that he was about to float in the direction of Chu Yan——
"Don't move!" Shen Lingxi shouted at him in a hurry.

Mu Huaian and Chu Yan followed her gaze.

There is nothing there.

"Shen Lingxi..." Mu Huai'an put his arms around his chest, drew out his voice, and gave her a look of "Enough is enough".

And Chu Yan, thoughtful, only pondered for a few breaths, then turned his head and walked down.

Seeing this, Shen Lingxi felt relieved, and hurriedly said to Mu Huai'an: "I just discovered that there are traces of iron claws on the railing on the west side. The murderer who threw the corpse must have climbed up from downstairs with iron claws tied to a rope. If you have nothing to do, you can go downstairs to look for clues."

"It has been checked on the day of the accident." Mu Huai'an looked like he knew this before, "The man's footprints were found in the flower bed downstairs, and Dali Temple is following this clue to investigate."

Shen Lingxi frowned.

Man's footprints?
The answer does not match what Wang An said.

It must have been a blindfold deliberately left by the murderer.

Shen Lingxi: "Have you searched the second floor? The murderer carried so many corpses and climbed from the first floor to the third floor. It's hard not to be discovered!"

"You mean that person hid on the second floor beforehand?" Mu Huai'an raised his eyebrows and snapped his fingers, "It makes sense."

Turned around and walked downstairs.

Shen Lingxi finally breathed a sigh of relief, and turned to look at King An, "Okay, the ceremony is over, now you can leave this attic."

The boy smiled happily, and bowed to Shen Lingxi.

Shen Lingxi instructed again, "Remember, if you meet His Highness King Ning in the future, you have to stay one foot away from him, otherwise your soul will be hurt by his evil spirit."

Only then did Wang An understand why she stopped him from approaching just now, and secretly kept it in his heart.

Shen Lingxi bid farewell to him and walked down the stairs.

The second floor is a place for people to rest, and there are many wing rooms.

At this moment, the westernmost wing room was lit with candles, and Mu Huai'an was leading a group of clerks to search inside.

"Boss, half a bloody footprint was found here." Suddenly, a servant shouted, "It should be a woman's footprint..."

Mu Huai'an was overjoyed: "Hurry up, scrape down the footprints and bring them back to the yamen."

Shen Lingxi stood at the stairs, and when she heard this, she didn't have any surprise on her face, and went straight down to the first floor.

Downstairs, Chu Yan, who was dressed as "Ning Liulang", stood in front of the incense table with his hands behind his back, his black eyes were staring at King An's spirit seat, wondering what he was thinking.

Perhaps because there was no one on the first floor, he didn't look like a scholar like before, and his whole body inadvertently exuded a cold aura, with a kind of indifference and alienation that rejected people thousands of miles away.

Sensing Shen Lingxi's footsteps, Chu Yan returned to his senses, eyes drooping, collected the aura around him, took half a step back, and greeted her, "Shopkeeper Shen, don't come here without any problems."

Shen Lingxi returned the gift politely, and asked curiously, "Why did Ning Liulang come to Prince An's Mansion suddenly?"

"It's not sudden." Chu Yan looked up at her, "It's just that I happened to hear that the girl is here, so I wanted to confirm something with the girl face to face."

"What's the matter?" Shen Lingxi was a little wary.

After all, not long ago in the Heming Tower, she asked Mu Huaian to tell "Ning Liulang" in front of the "guards" that she had no admiration for him.

His Royal Highness, the grandson of the emperor, shouldn't he feel that he has lost his face, and today he specially used the identity of "Ning Liulang" to ask her about the crime?

Chu Yan guessed what she was thinking at a glance, and almost laughed angrily.

He took a few steps back, putting a further distance between him and her.

Under this identity, the usual gentle tone is also quite indifferent: "I heard from the assistant that the girl is going to the Heming Tower today to apply for an embroiderer. I am here to ask the girl, if you want to complete that embroidery pattern, you have to go to the palace to stay." For a while, I don't know if the girl is willing or not?"

"The owner of the Heming Tower who offered a thousand gold rewards to Xiuniang is you?" Shen Lingxi couldn't hide the surprise on her face.

"It's right here." Chu Yan lowered his eyes halfway, hiding the emotion in his eyes, "The embroidery pattern was bought by Eunuch Li, who was next to the empress dowager a few months ago, and bought it from Yaoniang in Sucheng for a shroud. Yes. The embroiderer of the Shangyi Supervisor couldn’t learn it, and Yaoniang disappeared again, so I left it to my subordinates to find another embroiderer to enter the palace.”

Shen Lingxi finally understood why Xuetuan took her to Heming Tower.

It turned out that it was something from the empress dowager's palace.

Thinking of what he had just thought in his heart, Shen Lingxi looked a little embarrassed, and smiled sarcastically, "I see."

The atmosphere instantly became awkward.

Seeing this, Chu Yan's black eyes darkened slightly.

"Young lady asked Mu Shaoqing to tell me what you said before, and I already know about it."

He said in a calm tone: "Miss, don't worry, I made a mistake earlier, so I took the attitude of being 'responsible' to the girl, and mentioned this matter to Mu Shaoqing. Now that the misunderstanding has been resolved, you Both of us don't have that kind of meaning for each other, so the girl doesn't have to take this matter to heart."

The word "responsible" he deliberately bit down heavily made Shen Lingxi suddenly realize.

"It turns out that Mr. Lang just wanted to be 'responsible'." Shen Lingxi nodded with a smile, her expression relaxed, "Then I can rest assured."

Such an answer made Chu Yan's eyes darker.

He didn't expect that one day, he would become her burden like Mu Huai'an, making her "worried".

No, he is not as good as Mu Huaian.

After all, Mu Huai'an is a "best friend".

And he just met by chance.

"Miss, have you thought about it clearly? Are you willing to enter the palace?" Chu Yan assumed a business-like attitude.

"Sharing worries for the Empress Dowager is the duty of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Naturally, there is no problem in entering the palace." Shen Lingxi cleared her throat and asked thoughtfully, "I just don't know, if I want to leave the palace..."

Chu Yan: "I will apply for the girl and Eunuch Li. After five days, I can rest for two days."

"Okay, yes, I'll go." Shen Lingxi replied bluntly.

Chu Yan received her reply, and bid farewell to her politely and distantly.

"Lang Jun wait a moment." Shen Lingxi called him, and asked out the doubts in his heart, "Lang Jun knew very early on that only I can embroider this double-sided embroidery sample, why didn't you just come to me directly, but want to do it in the Heming Tower?" What about the huge reward?"

"The embroidered handkerchief in Yinyue Pavilion involves people in the palace. If you invite the girl into the palace rashly, you may be in danger of life, so you never invited the girl." Chu Yan replied truthfully, "Now the man is dead, and the girl came in." Go to the palace, there should be no serious problems."

Shen Lingxi came to Mu Huai'an this time for the purpose of embroidering handkerchiefs. Hearing this, she asked curiously, "Who is the person in the palace who is involved with Yinyue Pavilion?"

"Young lady, I just met this person a few days ago..." Chu Yan looked at her, and said two words meaningfully: "Yatzhu."

(End of this chapter)