Acacia, don't be negative

Chapter 139 The Dust Settles
The direction they were walking in was exactly the direction the man in black fled from just now.Ye Xiu wanted to keep up, but Ye Song turned around and said, "Brother, help me take care of Ahqing and Chunchun." He managed to stop Ye Xiu.

Because the man in black was seriously injured, blood was dripping on the green grass along the way, so it was not difficult to distinguish.When I finally descended the mountainside, the bloodstains suddenly disappeared.Ye Song and Su Jing looked at each other, Su Jing listened intently for a while, then said with a smile, "Come on, bet a hundred taels of silver, I bet he lives."

Ye Song would not be fooled by Su Jing, he might be able to distinguish the other party's voice, so he said: "I also bet that he is alive."

Su Jing's humble smile became more charming, and she said, "Okay, then I bet he's dead."

Speaking without giving Ye Song any chance to repent, he raised the crossbow in his hand and shot it up out of thin air.The leaves moved, and then a heavy black object fell heavily.

Ye Song narrowed his eyes and said, "Bitch, you're cheating."

"It's a bet, you have to bet on something different."

"You must have shot him with an arrow."

Su Jing turned the black clothes over, saw the blood on the corner of his mouth turned dark, and said, "He probably expected that he couldn't escape, he committed suicide by taking poison, and it's none of my business. Besides," he chuckled twice , "I knew you would say that, so the arrow didn't shoot him, it just hit the tree trunk and shook him off."

Ye Song took off the hood of the man in black, and muttered, "It really is from Nanzhen."

"Now you still have the intuition that she did it?"

Ye Song groped from the man in black's arms and touched some purple residual powder. He didn't dare to smell it close to his nose, so he just rubbed it for a while and said, "I don't know too well. Look at Nanshu, it's not Nanshu. It's the people of Zhen."

"Well, she is from Beixia." Su Jing said, "If this Nanzheng really has something to do with her, we have to consider that she might be the third prince who has been close to him intentionally from the very beginning."

"Nan Zhen is very good at using incense?" Ye Song raised his head and met Su Jing's tender eyes.

That twinkling look was like a stream of spring water.

"Maybe." Su Jing shrugged, "I haven't asked about these things for a long time, so don't ask me."

Afterwards, the two checked for a while, but found nothing else on the man in black, so they had to give up.When the two went down the mountain, Ye Song looked at Su Jing again and said, "Now we can talk about you and me."

Su Jing leaned over, embraced Ye Song's shoulder, patted her shoulder, and said, "Tomorrow, I'm very tired today. I guess the emperor will announce you to enter the palace tomorrow morning to accept the emperor's official crown. Let's go to Suxiang Building in the afternoon, I'll make an appointment with you."

The officers and soldiers gathered at the foot of the mountain to help a large group of bandits, Ye Xiu was on the horse, Ye Qing and Chun Chun were also sitting in the carriage, apparently waiting for Ye Song and Su Jing to return before returning to Beijing.Ye Song looked up at the fire not far away, smiled, and said, "There are no beauties in Suxiang Building in the afternoon, and they only pick up guests at night."

"Well, but I asked you out to hear your explanation, not to play. Your explanation made me happy, let's play again."

Ye Song stamped his feet, with a half-smile: "Can't we change to a place like a teahouse or a theater?"

"No," Su Jing said confidently, "I am only familiar with kilns. Remember to bring a hundred taels of silver, and bank notes are also acceptable."

Ye Song: "..." She and Su Jing rode on the horse side by side, and returned to Beijing with the large army. After walking for a while, she said, "I suddenly remembered that when I was hunting, my horse was frightened. I also smelled a kind of incense. At that time, Nan Shu touched my horse."

Su Jing nodded and said with a smile: "That's something that needs to be observed carefully. I'm good at observing beautiful women."

The gates of the capital city were wide open, apparently waiting for Ye Xiu to bring his troops back to the city.

Just after entering the city, an immature child's voice sounded from a dark corner nearby: "Sister!"

The officers and soldiers wanted to catch him, but Ye Song looked sideways, stopped quickly, got off his horse and came over, asking, "Baozi, why are you here?"

The little bun was holding a little girl by the hand, and the girl looked timid.Baozi showed a row of white teeth, and said, "I'll wait here for my sister to come back. I'm relieved to see that my sister is safe and sound."

Ye Song said: "Thanks to you this time, I will invite your friends to eat buns tomorrow."

The little girl thanked softly: "Thank you big sister."

At this moment, Baozi moved his nose, frowned and asked, "What's the smell? It's so fragrant?"

Ye Song was puzzled, and smelled it, but he could only smell the blood on his body, nothing else.But she remembered that Baozi's nose was so sensitive that she could distinguish the smell of other people, so she asked, "Do you feel dizzy?"

Baozi nodded, "I don't feel comfortable smelling too much."

That's it.She must have touched the purple powder on the man in black before, but she didn't expect that the little bun could still smell it after walking so far.She was overjoyed, touched Baozi's head, and said: "It's getting late, take your friend back to bed soon. I will come to you again some other day."

Baozi blushed, took the little girl and left, and whispered: "Look, I told you not to follow me, and let my sister laugh at me."

"I, I... I was originally your lover..."

After walking a few steps, Baozi turned his head and looked at Ye Song, hesitant to speak.Ye Song asked with a half-smile, "Is there any news you want to tell me?"

Baozi said: "It seems that something happened to the Three Princes' Mansion."

In the afternoon, Su Chen hurried back to the palace from the palace.It has been a long time since there was a mess in the palace.

Lingyue died.It was only in the morning that the body was seen floating from the lake, and it was immediately picked up and placed in the courtyard, covered with a simple white cloth.Her wheelchair was soaked into a pile of fallen wood by the lake and piled aside.

When Su Chen came back, Nanshu was kneeling beside Lingyue's body, crying to death, unable to speak at the same time: "It's all my fault... It's all my fault for Lingyue, it's all my fault...You ...Without me, you don't have to suffer like this...you wake up, please wake up..."

The expressions on the faces of the servants and servants in the mansion seemed to be a kind of indifference and numbness.Maybe it's because he felt that Lingyue's death deserved a lot of guilt, or maybe it was because he felt that Nanshu was crying like a mouse.Who doesn't know, since Lingyue became paralyzed, Nan Shu went to see her once or twice at first, but then he didn't care about her anymore.

Nan Shu turned his head and saw Su Chen came back, got up and threw himself into Su Chen's arms, crying loudly.Su Chen put his arms around her shoulders to comfort her, and asked, "What's going on?"

"Lingyue, she..."

At this time, the steward of the palace stood up and said, "My lord, someone found Lingyue in the lake this morning."

Su Chen frowned, and hit the nail on the head, saying: "Didn't Lingyue be assigned to do gardening in the backyard, how could she drown in the lake?"

The housekeeper also didn't understand, and said: "It's possible...it was dark and I didn't look at the road, so I fell into it."

"Who is in charge of taking care of Lingyue?"

The fat aunt who manages the gardening in the backyard stood up in fear.Su Chen couldn't see Nanshu crying, so he asked in detail and learned about Lingyue's situation.Aunt Fat arranges a lot of work for Lingyue every day, and she will be beaten and scolded if she can’t finish it, and she will have no food, so it’s not hard to imagine Lingyue still working in the middle of the night. The door caused the current situation.

How to say, this is also a human life, although it is only a maid.

So Su Chen immediately brushed off his sleeves, and ordered the fat aunt to be dragged out and punished with fifty sticks, in order to calm Nanshu's grief.

Unexpectedly, when the fat aunt was dragged down, she yelled in fear: "My lord, my lord! This old slave was wronged! It's not my fault, this old slave was wronged! Lingyue was with Nanshu last night. Together! What the old slave saw with his own eyes is absolutely unmistakable!"

Nan Shu's expression froze, tears welled up in his eyes, and he forgot to blink.

"What did you say?" Su Chen ordered him to stop.

The fat aunt knelt on the ground tremblingly, and tremblingly said: "This old slave has worked diligently for the palace for many years. At first, Lingyue came to Lao Nu to boss her around. Seeing that she was not used to it, the old slave assigned some heavy work to her. But seeing She did a solid job, only let her work for a few nights and wanted to ask her to come back to rest at night. But last night, when the old slave woke up in the middle of the night, he happened to see Lingyue come back, but she didn't go into the house to sleep. After looking more carefully, I saw that it was Nanshu who was pushing her to pass by. It seemed that Lingyue was crying sadly..."

"What do you mean?" Nanshu was heartbroken, "I killed Lingyue?"

The fat aunt kowtowed again and again to promise: "This old slave will never lie, otherwise this old slave will suffer a terrible death. Please learn from me!"

Everyone in the palace was shocked.But the housekeeper said sincerely: "My lord, Fat Aunt has been in the palace for many years, she shouldn't lie..."

Su Chen looked down at Nan Shu.With a pale face, Nan Shu knelt down slowly along his legs, tears fell from the corners of his eyes, and he kept shaking his head: "No...My lord, I didn't..."

Su Chen has always defended Nanshu, but this time he chose to be skeptical.It is possible that he himself is a person who doubts everything, and it is also possible that he has discovered that Nan Shu is not as kind and weak as it appears on the surface.

Su Chen was heartbroken, what made them come here step by step?Facing Nan Shu's upturned little face that desperately wanted to be trusted, he lowered his head and stretched out his fingers to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, as gentle as ever.But in the bottom of his heart, the burning sensation almost swallowed him, the more uncomfortable he was, the clearer his thoughts became.

Su Chen suddenly asked: "Shu'er, why did you kill our child?"

This question had nothing to do with Lingyue's death, but it shocked Nan Shu suddenly.Su Chen saw her expression and felt pain in his heart.

Nanshu forced a smile in his tears, and said: "My child... Didn't my sister kill the child... She poured me a bowl full of saffron!"

"But before that, you took the abortion pill." Su Chen's tone was firm, there was no chance for Nan Shu to argue anymore, the corners of his eyes were slightly red, I don't know if it was anger or sadness, "You want to use this to blame Ye Song ,Right?"

This truth caused an uproar in the palace.No one thought that under Nanshu's weak surface, there was such a vicious heart hidden!
"I..." Nan Shu opened his mouth, his lips trembling, but he couldn't utter a complete sentence.

"What do you think I will do to Ye Song? Kill her? Or make her life worse than death?" Su Chen said, "Are you still the Nanshu I knew before?"

(End of this chapter)