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

"My son-in-law, please express my condolences." Shen Lingxi's eyes flickered slightly, and she deliberately stopped her, "The imperial emissary will soon come to condole the princess, if the makeup is damaged... the empress loved beauty in her lifetime, so she definitely doesn't want to be disgraceful in front of others. "

It was only then that Cui Jin noticed her.

If she didn't stop her, Cui Jin would just be suspicious.

But when she stopped him like this, Cui Jin became more or less certain in his heart...

At this moment, Eunuch Chang stepped forward and stopped his hand, "My son-in-law, what Miss Shen said is very true, the imperial envoy will come immediately, and please ask my son-in-law to go with this slave to change clothes."

Although Cui Jin had displeasure on his face, he turned around and walked out without reaching out again.

Shen Lingxi looked at the backs of the two of them, thoughtfully...

*
Because the eldest princess was assassinated and died, Chu Yan, as one of the suspects, was also surrounded by the Habayashi guards in the princess mansion.

He still lives in that small courtyard.

It's just that the guards outside the courtyard were replaced by embroidered envoys instead of the eldest princess' maids.

The eldest princess herself is also hiding in this small courtyard.

Chu Yan gave up the upper room to her, and he himself lived in the east wing.

Chunjun was in front of the gate, pacing back and forth, constantly looking in the direction of the main courtyard.

Last night, he led the embroidered clothes envoy to come, and when he entered the door, he saw Shen Lingxi stopping the bleeding for His Royal Highness, and he was very relieved.

Since the death of the empress, except for him, when His Highness was injured, he never let others get close to him.

Now it's finally... enlightened.

Chunjun thinks that he is the person who knows His Royal Highness best, and His Royal Highness treats Miss Shen so differently, so he naturally wants to create more opportunities for them to get along.

Seeing Shen Lingxi and Mu Huai'an walking from the main courtyard, Chun Jun hurried up to meet them.

"Miss, your Highness's situation is not good." He said solemnly: "I also ask Miss to take care of you, and go down to find the imperial physician to prescribe some medicines."

Mu Huai'an raised his eyebrows, and he could see what Chun Jun was thinking at a glance.

Without waiting for Shen Lingxi to speak, he said directly: "She can only take care of corpses, not the living. You should come to me for such a thing, I will go."

Shen Lingxi turned to look at him:?

Chunjun smiled, it was no surprise that he would say that, and lowered his voice, "I'm still waiting for Shaoqing to report back to the eldest princess. Is it possible that Shaoqing plans to let Miss Shen go?"

Mu Huai'an frowned, thinking that what he saw in the main courtyard just now must be known to the eldest princess, so he told Chun Jun, "I'm going to find the eldest princess now, you wait until I come back before leaving."

After all, he hurried to the upper room.

Seeing him enter the upper room, Chunjun looked at Shen Lingxi with a look of embarrassment in his eyes, "Girl, Your Highness has a fever again, if we delay..."

"Okay, leave it to me, you can go at ease." Shen Lingxi readily agreed.

She was going to find Chu Yan and tell him what Yu Zhu said, so that he could make arrangements earlier, so that she didn't have to find another excuse to come to the door.

In the east wing, benzoin was burning.

Chu Yan frowned, and was lying on the couch with her eyes closed.

His handsome face was as pale as paper, his thin lips moved slightly, making a vague raving sound, and beads of sweat slipped from the corner of his forehead, as if he was in a nightmare.

Shen Lingxi thought of Chunjun before explaining her words: "...the injuries are relatively minor compared to those he suffered before. It's just that His Highness has an old illness since he was young, and there is no blood on his body. It was already healed. I was stimulated and relapsed again. I was sick for a few days last time, and I don’t know how long it will last this time. It is always caused by a knot in my heart. I can only use soothing aromatherapy and decoction to get over it..."

She remembered that Mu Huai'an once said that Chu Yan's old illness was caused by witnessing his mother and concubine fall to a rockery and die tragically when she was young.

As for the cause of the relapse...it should be in Fu'an Hall, when she rubbed against him covered in blood.

If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes this time, Shen Lingxi really wouldn't have known it would be so serious.

She wrung out a wet handkerchief from the basin next to him, and walked to the bed, intending to put the handkerchief on his forehead.

However, before the hand touched his forehead, the slender wrist was tightly grasped by a big palm with well-defined joints.

Shen Lingxi lowered her eyes in surprise, and caught off guard, her eyes fell into his dark eyes full of evil spirits.

Chu Yan seemed to be still awake, looking at her with a sharp killing intent like a sharp sword.

Shen Lingxi was startled, she clenched the handkerchief in her hand, and quickly explained: "Chunjun is going to get medicine for His Highness, and entrust me to take care of you."

Qingling's voice was like the moonlight piercing through the thick fog, causing Chu Yan to wake up from the ink in his eyes.

"Sorry." He let go of her wrist, forced herself to sit up, and said politely and distantly: "I'm fine, I'm sorry."

With a pale and cold face, he did not hide the meaning of chasing guests.

After last night, Shen Lingxi knew that she had exposed her secrets one after another, and now in his heart, her credibility was extremely low.

Seeing his weak appearance, he secretly thought that he should not have the energy to take care of other things, so he had to press down on what he wanted to say and stand up.

"Then you have a good rest, Mu Shaoqing should be outside, I'll go find him."

She originally intended to find Mu Huai'an to take care of him, but in Chu Yan's ears, it had another meaning.

"If you have something to do, just tell me." Chu Yan raised his eyes, his voice was very calm, "There is no need to go to him."

Shen Lingxi didn't intend to say anything, but seeing that he asked for it, she wouldn't hide it.

She simply sat down on the side of the couch, and told him what Yuzhu had said and Cui Jin's doubts.

Whether Chu Yan believed it or not, since Shen Lingxi decided to be honest with him, she would no longer hide it.

However, she knew that Chu Yan had never believed in these ghosts and gods, and she had no idea. When speaking, she unconsciously twisted the handkerchief in her hand around her fingers.

At the end, she thought of Xue Tuan, and added, "Xue Tuan's death should also be related to the son-in-law."

"So these are the ghosts who told you?" Chu Yan sat leaning on the head of the bed, eyes drooping slightly, casually looking at the square handkerchief in her hand, it was difficult to distinguish the expression, "Human souls, and cat souls, Can you really see ghosts?"

"Yes." Shen Lingxi's eyes were unprecedentedly calm, "In addition to Yuzhu and Xuetuan, there is also His Highness King An. Last time I was in Prince An's Mansion, I also brought him out. If you want to talk to him, I can speak for him." You pass it on, but they are a little afraid of you and can't get close to you."

Chu Yan's finger bones slightly curved, and he pinched the center of his eyebrows lightly.

He didn't expect that after last night, this girl is now in front of him, using ghosts to talk about things, she just opened her mouth, and the more she said, the more outrageous she became.

It is true that she led the way last night, which cannot be explained by common sense.

Just as he was thinking, the door was pushed open from the outside, and Mu Huai'an walked into the room lightly.

As if he didn't expect Chu Yan to be awake, Mu Huai'an met Chu Yan's eyes, and hurriedly bowed respectfully.

"Please forgive me, Your Highness. Chun Jun entrusted the officer to take care of you. The officer thought you were sleeping, so he rushed in recklessly..."

Chu Yan looked at him sideways, with a slight mockery on his pale lips.

Against the pressure in his sight, Mu Huai'an pretended not to know, walked lightly to Shen Lingxi's side, and took out the handkerchief from her hand, "I'll take care of His Highness, Miss Shen, go and rest."

Chu Yan's eyes fell on the handkerchief, his eyes darkened slightly.

Shen Lingxi had finished what she had to say, she didn't hope that Chu Yan would believe her words, she nodded to Mu Huai'an, and got up to leave.

Suddenly, Chu Yan's cold and majestic voice came from behind her: "Since Cui Jin is suspicious, he will find ways to verify the authenticity of the corpse. If it is not confirmed whether the princess is really dead or fake, how dare the people behind the scenes act rashly. If Gu is not wrong, someone will definitely come to attack the corpse tonight, Mu Huai'an, you don't arrange to arrest people, but you spend your time here, do you want Gu to do things for you?"