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Chapter 314
Under the dim moonlight, a few wisps of blue smoke rose slowly, gradually turning into a cloud of smoke, covering half of the bright moon, and shrouding the entire Zhuo Palace in hazy darkness.

The door is locked, obviously it is impossible to get in, even if you are lucky enough to pry open the door, it is impossible not to alarm so many guards.

Ye Zhaoyan frowned, this is probably the first time that the Zhuo Palace has had a lot of trouble because of an insignificant son.

Unfortunately, this is the reason.

Ye Zhaoyan didn't get entangled. Taking advantage of the guards' inattention, she jumped up and turned into another courtyard wall.

This is her real goal today.

This courtyard is elegantly furnished, and the house is lit with lights, reflecting the shadow of a beautiful woman, whose back looks a little restless, she hovers around the table from time to time, muttering something, and occasionally reaches out to touch the table. Candlestick seemed to want to go out but was hesitant, finally he could only sigh helplessly and continued to pace, as if he was waiting for someone or something.

Just when Ye Zhaoyan was about to take out the things in her arms, she heard a light squeak, and looked carefully, the woman in the room took out a box from under the bed and opened it, and then resentment appeared on her face.

The box was inlaid with precious stones, and the carving was luxurious and elegant, which was very eye-catching, but when the lid was pushed open, what was revealed was even more eye-catching.

It was a piece of high-quality rice paper, under the light of the candlelight, some traces of lines were revealed, and a familiar appearance came into view. She couldn't help but stare at it, but saw that the person on the picture scroll had a beautiful and refined appearance, but his expression was indifferent.

It was herself!

The reason why she is familiar with this painting is that this fine brushwork is very similar to the portrait Zhuo Yibai once painted when he came to the door. The only difference is that the last one is a finished product, while this one has just begun to take shape .

Why did Zhuo Tianxin hide such a portrait in the house? When she was wondering, she saw Zhuo Tianxin take out a blue underwear from the grid behind the bookshelf, put her nose on the door and sniff lightly.

Ye Zhaoyan could see it clearly in the dark. It was a man's underwear. She was slightly stunned for a moment, and suddenly found that there seemed to be a small piece of green bamboo embroidery on the lower right corner of the shirt, which looked very familiar.

It's like someone's style.
Why does Zhuo Tianxin hide a man's clothes and cherish them so much?
There was a sound of footsteps, and then there was a light knock on the door——

"Miss." The door of the room was slowly opened, and a maid came in lightly with a basin in hand.

"Who told you to come in and disturb me?!" With Zhuo Tianxin's angry reprimand, there was a crisp "snap", and the wooden basin in the servant girl's hand fell to the ground, and scalding hot water splashed onto her legs.

"Miss, please spare me! This servant will never dare again!" The servant girl screamed in fright and ran out in a hurry.

There was silence in the room for a while, and then someone came over lightly to clean up the mess.

The man's angle was facing Ye Zhaoyan's direction, forcing her to look away from her staring eyes.

"Is there still no news over there?" Zhuo Tianxin's voice sounded.

"Miss, the front of the son's mansion has been guarded all the time, and our people can't get close at all," a slightly hoarse voice said, "Why don't you go to the second son, maybe there is a way."

Prince's mansion?Could it be
Ye Zhaoyan's pupils constricted, and a thought sprouted in his heart.

"No need," Zhuo Tianxin's tone was cold, "You don't know, he is getting very close to the Nanyue princess recently, and he wants to see our misfortune, so why would he intervene?"

"Miss, the young master is weak and his condition is unknown. If he is not treated in time, he may not last long." The hoarse voice hesitated, "Liu Ya is still waiting outside."

Zhuo Tianxin gritted his teeth: "You go out and wait first, I will come later."

"Yes, ma'am."

Ye Zhaoyan stood quietly in the darkness, watching the slender man put away the blue shirt carefully, and walked out of the room.

She just opened the window and entered the room, opened the box just now, and put the painting into her arms. When walking towards the table, she looked back at the bookshelf in a strange way, hesitated for a moment, and touched it.

There was a grid hidden in the dark at the back. Ye Zhaoyan inspected it carefully, and shattered the mechanism with brute force without hesitation.

In addition to the blue shirt, there was a package in the box.

She opened the package, and they were all men's personal items, mainly in blue, and each piece was exquisite and elegant.

This kind of color scheme and style always makes people think of that person unconsciously.

When she first met Zhuo Tianxin, she realized that the brother and sister had a close relationship, but there were too many of these objects.

What's more, even if it belongs to the elder brother, it is still a man's personal belongings. It is unavoidable to be collected like this
Ye Zhaoyan pursed his lips, stared at the pile of objects for a while, and suddenly stretched his palm towards the innermost layer of the grid——

She touched the thing out, and it turned out to be a stack of rice paper with two letterheads mixed in it.

She unfolded the paper and found that all the poems were written on it.

These poems are ingenious, and most of them use ideas that have never appeared on the market, which shows that the writers of the poems are talented.

Although the poems are unfamiliar, the handwriting is very familiar to her, after all, she has seen such handwriting in Zhuo Yibai's letter with her own eyes.

Ye Zhaoyan turned to the end, and was stunned for a moment. There were several paintings, all of which showed the same young man, with handsome facial features, pale skin, wearing a plain long gown, sitting in front of the piano table and playing intently. Zhuo Yibai.

What is depicted and painted is the most beautiful part of this young man, faintly revealing the intention and admiration of the painter.

She suddenly thought of a possibility.
A shiver ran down her spine.

Ye Zhaoyan didn't hesitate any longer, and immediately walked to the table, picked up a pen and paper and wrote a few lines with his left hand, and at the end, he didn't clean it up, and spread it out on top.

After doing this, she thought for a moment, put the package into her arms, and took the two letters with her at the same time.

After a while, the sound of footsteps came faintly from the yard, and then she rushed towards the direction outside the mansion
After a long time, Zhuo Tianxin who stepped into the door looked at the open window, frowned, and was about to get up to close the window, when he suddenly found the ink on the rice paper blown by the night wind on the table was still fresh.

When she picked up and saw the things on it clearly, she felt as if struck by lightning, her face changed again and again, full of fear and anger.
At this moment, the mechanism behind the bookshelf has not been closed, and together with the piece of paper on the table, it is buzzing with the cold wind blowing into the room, making a slight sound.

Zhuo Tianxin's eyes darkened for a while, and she barely supported her body and moved towards the back of the bookshelf.

The organ behind the bookshelf is empty, there is nothing
Her eyes widened suddenly, her body shook twice, she sat on the ground slumped, and murmured: "How could this be?"

A few days later, in the middle of the night, the ancestral hall of Prince Zhuo's Mansion was stolen, which alarmed the entire palace.

Cigarettes are lingering in the ancestral hall, and dozens of long-burning lamps are burning with faint yellow candles, illuminating the whole ancestral hall dimly, solemnly and dauntingly.

The bronze tripod placed in the center of the ancestral hall and many gold and silver vessels disappeared, and the antidote hidden in one of the gilt bottles was also stolen.

The elder's angry voice was particularly harsh in this silent night: "It's hard to guard against a house thief! Do you want to shame your ancestors by committing theft?!"

Everyone knelt down on the futons and listened to the training piously. After an unknown amount of time, a slender figure quietly left the seat.

(End of this chapter)