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

That night, Yuzhu told Shen Lingxi the conversation between Concubine Cui and Eunuch Chang without any changes.

Shen Lingxi thought about it, and went directly to the East Wing.

However, Chu Yan was not in the room.

Maybe he had an explanation before he left, the embroiderer on duty in the courtyard stepped forward and said: "If the girl is looking for His Highness, please follow me."

Shen Lingxi thought for a while, then stepped up to follow.

The embroiderer took her out of the courtyard gate to the east, through a small garden with lush vegetation, which was the easternmost wall of the Princess Mansion.

In the corner of the tall wall, an inconspicuous wooden door was hidden under vines.

The wooden door was ajar, revealing a little light.

Shen Lingxi walked through the wooden door, and saw a winding path winding among the vegetation.

There are a dozen or so embroiderers along the road, holding lanterns with solemn expressions, nailed on both sides like nails.

Turning around the rockery at the end of the path, you can see a three-story attic rising up from the ground. Under the eaves of each floor of the attic, there are a row of paper-made yellow lanterns, and spells are drawn on the lamps with cinnabar.

The lanterns swayed in the night wind, as if someone was waving.

It's a soul lamp.

This is Prince An's Mansion.

That attic is where King An hanged himself.

Shen Lingxi did not expect that coming out of the corner gate of the Princess's mansion, she would be so close to the attic.

The embroiderer led the way and led her up to the attic.

Unlike last time, the attic was lit with white candles, and the empty attic, because of the dim light, looked even more lonely and desolate in the night.

At this moment, Shen Lingxi stopped here again, feeling a pang in her heart.

She really couldn't imagine how Wang An, a pure-minded boy, survived these endless nights every day in the two years after his death.

Standing in front of the railing on the west side, Chu Yan was wearing a moon-white gown, her black hair was fixed with white jade hairpins, and she was tall and tall, silent.

His complexion looked better than the previous two days.It's just that between the eyebrows, there are still a few traces of weakness and fatigue.

At first glance, it seems that he has changed back to "Ning Liulang" again, but he has a little more noble and alienated temperament than Ning Liulang.

The conversation with the eldest princess the night before seemed to have had no effect on him.

At that time, even if he heard that the emperor had wanted to change the crown prince three times in the past few years, he never even frowned.

Shen Lingxi couldn't help being a little curious, in the heart of the grandson of the emperor, whether he didn't care about the position of the crown prince at all, or felt that no one could take it away from him.

As if hearing Shen Lingxi's footsteps, Chu Yan turned his head and met her eyes, a look of surprise flashed in his cold starry eyes.

But immediately, this astonishment was replaced by a bright light, "You came just in time."

He bent his fingers slightly, and casually ticked Shen Lingxi, beckoning her to come closer, staring at the corner of the railing, his bony fingers lightly tapped the mark that Shen Lingxi had spotted before, "Look carefully, what is the mark of this mark?" different."

Shen Lingxi's eyes showed doubts, and he picked up the candles on the candlestick beside him, and leaned over to observe carefully.

It was the mark of the claws, which she had touched before.

However, after illuminating it with a candle today, Shen Lingxi discovered that this mark was different from the usual claws.

The middle claw mark is deeper than the sides, which means the claws in the middle of the claw are sharper.

Shen Lingxi has seen such a hook claw before, not only can it be used to fly over walls, but it can also be used to kill people.

It is one of the weapons commonly used by the soldiers of Yun Kingdom.

The eldest princess's maidservant could never be from Yunguo.

In other words, the person who threw Yuzhu's body into Prince An's mansion was indeed not the eldest princess.

Chu Yan's eyes kept falling on Shen Lingxi's side face.

Seeing that her clear eyes were full of surprise, one knew that she had figured out the mystery.

She can manipulate corpses, and she can see through the weapons of Yun Kingdom's dead soldiers at a glance.

Chu Yan's eyes flickered slightly, and he narrowed his eyes and asked, "What did you find?"

"The person who threw the corpse was from Yunjiang, and has nothing to do with the eldest princess." Shen Lingxi answered calmly without thinking about it.

If it was in the past, she would have deliberately covered it up and pretended not to know.

But now, if he wants to win the trust of the person in front of him, he can only be honest with each other, hoping to exchange his sincerity for his sincerity.

Shen Lingxi stood up straight, put the candle back to its original position, raised her clear eyes, and smiled slightly at the corner of her lips, "Since your highness has already seen it, you still intend to test it out, what do you want to know from my little girl? "

Chu Yan didn't expect that she would be so frank and direct.

His eyes fixed on the dimple at the corner of her lips for a moment, and then moved away lightly, "It's not necessary to know anything, as long as you know whether the girl can lie or not, that's enough."

As soon as Shen Lingxi heard it, she knew that she blurted out the words "you said you would believe me..." that night, which had already given him insight into the fact that he knew that he was "Ning Liulang" a long time ago.

Shen Lingxi blinked, "It's not long since I 'first met' with His Highness, when did I deceive His Highness?"

She deliberately bit down on the word "first acquaintance", with an extremely innocent look on her face.

It means that he used "Ning Liulang" to get close to him at the beginning, which was also half a catty deception.

Chu Yan pursed her thin lips slightly.

When he approached her back then, his purpose was indeed not pure.

However, her origin is a mystery, and she is not innocent.

But right now, it doesn't make much sense to talk about it again.

"There is no need to mention the past. In the future..."

"In the future, I will know and say everything to Your Highness." Shen Lingxi hurriedly expressed her loyalty, "I will never do anything to deceive His Highness."

After all, she smiled and saluted him, "I haven't thanked Your Highness for your trust in me these two days."

On the basis of the collapse of trust, he chose to believe the "ghost things" told him one after another, and even took the initiative to cover up for her.

Shen Lingxi felt that she should thank him.

"You don't need to thank me." Chu Yan looked away, and said in a calm tone, "I'm just keeping what I said before."

Shen Lingxi was slightly startled.

Then he thought of the sentence he said to her when he was "Ning Liulang": "Although I don't believe what you said, I believe you."

At that time, she didn't think so, but she didn't expect that he would take his promise seriously.

From this point of view, since he is a decent gentleman, presumably the little aunt is in his hands, life should not be too sad.

In the future, she was a little more confident in taking her little aunt away from him.

Thinking of this, Shen Lingxi looked at Chu Yan with more kind and gentle eyes.

For the case in front of me, I am more concerned.

"His Royal Highness found out that the person who threw the corpse was not from the Eldest Princess, and presumably he would not be from the son-in-law. After all, the ice cellar in the East Palace was reserved by the Zhao family to deal with His Highness in the future, so how could they easily expose themselves. It wasn't them, and Who would deliberately throw the corpse here, and what is the purpose behind it?"

Chu Yan said meaningfully: "No matter what the purpose of the person throwing the corpse is, one thing is certain, the other party must know the relationship between Yuzhu and the eldest princess, and the eldest princess will definitely investigate this matter secretly because of Yuzhu's death, and I will not let go of those who set traps in the East Palace. As long as we investigate, Duke Wei will definitely not be able to escape. The place where the corpse is thrown can sit firmly on the fish platform and watch the show. Maybe after the matter is over, we can take advantage of the opportunity , the abacus is shrewd."

These words made Shen Lingxi instantly think of the scene when the Eldest Princess specially pretended to be the aunt in charge of Yutan Palace and went to Fu'an Hall to express her condolences.

She asked with a dazed expression: "What is the relationship between Yuzhu and Princess Eldest...?"