559 The Truth about the Assassination (3)
Once the emperor found out about this, the truth was not important. What was important was how to appease Xuanyuan Ce’s anger.
Mo Yuan knew this, and killing intent appeared in her eyes. “What do you want?”
Xuanyuan Ce said, “I only want to ask you a few questions.”
“Where did the person who taught you martial arts go?”
Mo Yuan said, “I don’t know.”
Xuanyuan Ce had actually sent people to investigate everyone around Shen Yijia, including Mo Yuan. He knew that she was not lying.
He asked again, “Why did you try to assassinate me?”
When that girl was in trouble, this person even asked the little beggar to look for him to save her. No matter how he looked at it, she must have treated him as an ally.
In the end, she turned around and wanted to kill him again.
Back then, Ji Luo didn’t kill him when she left, so it was obvious that she wasn’t the one who ordered it.
Mo Yuan frowned, thinking of the first year she had been by Miss’s side.
One night, they were inexplicably hunted down.
After that, Miss found a token on those people. There was a word engraved on it.
Later on, when Miss was drunk, she found out that Miss had a daughter with a man called Xuanyuan Ce. Not only did that man betray her Miss, but he also sent people to hunt her down.
After that, she never heard her Miss mention that person again, including Miss’s daughter. Before Miss left, she only reminded her to protect Young Miss, but she did not tell her where to find Young Miss.
Even though she guessed that Xuanyuan Ce already knew Shen Yijia’s identity, Mo Yuan did not say the details. She only said that Xuanyuan Ce had once sent people to kill her previous master.
“I sent someone to hunt her down?” Xuanyuan Ce frowned. “What kind of token?”
Mo Yuan said nothing.
Xuanyuan Ce glanced at Chu Feng. Chu Feng understood and took out a token from his pocket and threw it over.
Mo Yuan caught it. The token was completely gilded. It had the symbol of a holy beast, the Qilin. On one side was engraved the image of a four-clawed flood dragon, and on the other side were the words “Lord Jing’an”.
Apart from the words being different, the rest were exactly the same.
However, the word “Ce” was also engraved on Lord Jing’an’s token. It even had more power than the one in Mo Yuan’s hand.
One represented the people of Lord Jing’an’s residence. Almost all of them were Xuanyuan Ce’s trusted aides.
The other piece could represent Xuanyuan Ce himself.
Although Xuanyuan Ce was confident, he was not conceited. Besides, it was impossible for him to really kill Shen Yijia’s men.
Therefore, he decisively got out of the carriage.
Seeing Mo Yuan turn the carriage around and leave without hesitation, Xuanyuan Ce’s face turned cold bit by bit. “Tell me, who used my name to hunt her down back then?”
“I don’t know.” Chu Feng actually had a guess in his heart, but he didn’t dare to say it.
“Not many people can get my token.” Xuanyuan Ce sneered. “Go and investigate.”
“Yes sir.”
South Wind had been drinking tea at the Fragrant Teahouse all day and almost couldn’t come back.
However, he did not drink the tea for nothing. For example, he realized that the officials of Great Xia liked to drink tea too much. They went in and stayed for a few hours.
Rooster and Thirty Thousand, who had returned to report the news together, rolled their eyes. They had long discovered this.
Besides, wasn’t it normal to drink tea and chat for a few hours?
“That’s it?” Shen Yijia asked.
South Wind shook his head. “Yes.”
He sat alone in the lobby for the entire day, drinking cup after cup of tea. The others almost treated him as a fool.
It was already good enough to know this.
Shen Yijia gritted her teeth. “Can’t you ask for a private room?”
South Wind said with a bitter expression, “I want to, but only people with invitations can enter the private room.”
The old prince did not have many hobbies in his life. Apart from accompanying the old princess consort in the residence, he simply treated a few friends to tea.
As for those invitations, they were all posted from the old lord’s residence. Those who could get them were either rich or noble.
Previously, when the old princess consort was still seeking medical treatment, people could use expensive medicinal herbs to exchange for it. However, now that Ji Yunxi was treating the old princess consort, this thread had long been removed.
“Isn’t it just another place to drink tea? Why are you making it so mysterious?” Shen Yijia puffed up her cheeks. “You must be doing something shameful inside.”
Song Jingchen looked at Rooster and Thirty Thousand. Rooster silently took out a red cloth from his pocket.
Shen Yijia sniffed. It smelled bad.
Rooster opened the cloth with a red face. It was a woman’s undergarment.
Shen Yijia was speechless.
“We dug this out from the junk pile,” Rooster quickly explained.
After searching through the junk and slop buckets for more than half a month, they found either leftovers or rotten vegetable leaves. This was the first time they had found something women used, so they brought it back.
Song Jingchen glanced at Mo Yuan. Mo Yuan took the undergarment and examined it.
After a while, she said, “There’s a hint of Misty Fragrance on it.”
From the name, one could tell that it was a stimulating drug that was usually used in brothels.
“How could an undergarment thrown out of the Fragrant Teahouse be tainted with Misty Fragrance?” Shen Yijia muttered.
Moreover, she could still smell it even now. The woman in this undergarment must have stayed in a place that contained the Misty Fragrance for a long time. It was impossible for her to have accidentally touched it.
“Could it be…” Shen Yijia’s eyes lit up. “The Fragrant Teahouse is actually a brothel, right?”