Good luck today

After leaving the small courtyard, Su Shixia and others immediately returned to the Silver Building.

The shopkeeper of Yinlou was still waiting for them in the tea room.

When Su Shixia and the others came out of the secret passage, the shopkeeper pretended to have just negotiated a big deal and happily sent Su Shixia and Forsythia out of the silver building.

On the way back, in the carriage.

Forsythia sat opposite Su Shixia, her eyes scanning back and forth between Su Shixia and the painting spread out on her lap many times. After hesitating for a moment, she tentatively asked: "Miss, this painting... …Any questions?"

"You have been staring at this painting since you got on the carriage. The more you look at it, the uglier your face becomes."

Forsythia looked down at the painting and asked uncertainly: "Do you really know the person in this painting?"

In the small courtyard before, Su Shixia began to treat Ji Qingcheng seriously after asking him questions.

Forsythia couldn't understand the spells Su Shixia used. She only saw Su Shixia draw a few talisman patterns on Ji Qingcheng's heart and eyebrows with cinnabar, and then pressed a talisman under his pillow.

After another injection, Ji Qingcheng completely woke up.

Not only did he sober up, but his mind seemed to have returned to normal, and he no longer talked like crazy like before.

He still remembered what happened at the door of the restaurant. After recognizing Su Shixia, he persistently asked Su Shixia if she knew Ji Qingyuan.

Su Shixia shook her head and said that she had never heard of this name before, and asked Ji Qingcheng to draw her a portrait of Ji Qingyuan to see if she had seen anyone who looked like Ji Qingyuan.

Ji Qingcheng has been drinking for many years, and now his hands are shaking when he picks up a pen, and he can't draw at all. Finally, he rummaged through the box and found a portrait of Ji Qingyuan when he was 15 years old and showed it to Su Shixia.

That painting is the one now spread out on Su Shixia's lap.

The young man in the painting is dressed in green cedar, with handsome features and a clear temperament. He is looking up at a flower tree next to him.

The pink petals from the tree fell down and landed in his hair, making the young man look like a fairy in a painting.

Forsythia had also stared at Ji Qingyuan in the portrait carefully for a long time, confirming that she had never seen this person before.

After Su Shixia heard Forsythia's question, he replied with certainty: "This person is Ye Li."

"night……"

Forsythia paused in shock, and unconsciously raised her voice slightly.

"The Ye Li you are talking about is... the national advisor of Dongling Kingdom, the one who plotted against you and Young Master Qin Yi before?"

"That's right."

Su Shixia tapped the portrait lightly with her fingertips, closed her eyes and said solemnly: "The young man in this portrait has black hair and black eyes. Compared with Ye Li, his hair color and eye color are different, and the details of his facial features are different." A certain amount of disguise has been modified. But... Judging from the bones, I can confirm that Ji Qingyuan and Ye Li in this portrait are the same person."

"That would be interesting."

Su Shixia stared at the man in the portrait with cold eyes.

"The former genius in the imperial city of Xiqi Kingdom burned everyone in the family to death because of a dispute with his grandfather. Afterwards, he went to Dongling Kingdom incognito and worked as a military advisor next to the former Dongling Emperor. A few years later, he and Dongling Emperor Let’s go out together to attack the Kingdom of Xiqi.”

"It's just a matter of betraying his own family, but he also betrayed the country. This Ye Li's behavior really... doesn't look like a normal person."

Forsythia was so shocked by what Su Shixia said that she forgot how to respond for a moment.

It was Su Shixia who called her first, "Forsythia, go find my third brother now and tell him all the news about Ji Qingyuan that we found out today. In addition, tell him that I want to go to the Ji family's ancestral home tonight. , if he is free tonight, he can wait for me outside Prince Huai's Mansion, and we will go there together." After Su Shixia returned to Prince Huai's Mansion, she was called over by Princess Huai.

By the time we came out of the princess's courtyard, it was completely dark.

She went back to her house and took the time to rest for a while. Late at night, escorted by Forsythia and Fuhu, she quietly sneaked out of Prince Huai's Mansion and took a carriage to the Ji family's ancestral home.

Feng Qinian had already been waiting for her at the Ji family's ancestral residence.

Seeing Su Shixia arrive, he immediately hurried over to greet her and asked directly: "I heard them say that your face was not very good when you came out of Princess Huai's yard. Did she make things difficult for you?"

Su Shixia originally thought that Feng Qinian was going to ask about Ji Qingyuan. When this completely unexpected question came into her ears, she couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. After she realized it, she couldn't help but chuckle and shake her head.

"Actually, it's nothing. Princess Huai didn't say anything bad when she saw me today. She just said that the imperial city of Xiqi Kingdom is in chaos now, and she was worried that it would be unsafe for me to raise Zhan'er outside, and she couldn't bear to have Zhan'er and me. We have been separated all this time, and you want to persuade me to take Zhan'er into Prince Huai's Mansion."

"Ha, that's nice to say. Why worry about Zhan'er's safety? I wish they were so kind."

Feng Qinian sneered: "I think King Huai, after seeing Zhan'er's ability, was afraid that Zhan'er would fall into the hands of other princes, so he couldn't wait to hold you and Zhan'er in his palm, right? He dares to think!"

After Feng Qinian finished speaking, he frowned and looked at Su Shixia with some uncertainty, "You won't really promise her, will you?"

"Do I look like a fool?"

Su Shixia glanced at Feng Qinian angrily, "I rejected her right then."

"When I took the initiative to approach King Huai to discuss cooperation with him, I made it very clear that I would use Zhan'er's abilities to help him, but I would never let Zhan'er get involved in this vortex."

"The most important thing for both parties to cooperate is to keep their word. If King Huai settles down and stops playing Zhan'er's ideas in the future, I can forgive them for their temptation this time."

"But if they are really so ungrateful and dare to plot against Zhan'er..."

Su Shixia twitched the corners of her lips coldly and tightened the robe she was wearing, "Then I will let them know the price they will pay for daring to step on my bottom line."

"now it's right."

Feng Qinian nodded with satisfaction.

"Be tough when you need to be tough, lest King Huai, who is ungrateful again, thinks you are really easy to bully."

"Stop talking about those unhappy things."

Su Shixia waved her hand, signaling to skip the topic, and scanned the ruins of the Ji family's ancestral home. She turned to Feng Qinian and asked, "Third brother, you came early, did you go inside and look around? Did you find anything?" "

"This house was burned to the ground by fire, because too many people died in the house at that time. After so many years, no one dared to rebuild it. It has been exposed to wind and sun for many years, and now it has become a complete wasteland. ”

"I did take people around inside just now. Apart from the ruins of the walls, I didn't find anything valuable. But..."

Feng Qinian suddenly paused when he said this, and when he spoke again, his voice lowered unconsciously.

"I think there's something evil here."

He rubbed his forearms and said, "The further inside I go, the colder I feel, and I always feel like there's a cold wind blowing into the back of my neck... Isn't it really like that, a lingering ghost?"

Su Shixia narrowed her eyes and scanned Feng Qinian's body carefully, raising her eyebrows slightly.

"Don't tell me, there are some unclean things around you."