The weak princess is super fierce

Chapter 924 Mo Jing She

He returned directly from Huachun Palace to his duty room.

He hurried past Ma Ji and Lan Zhijin, leaving a gust of night breeze that carried with him the faint scent of decaying blood they had been tracking halfway through their journey.

Ma Ji and Lan Zhijin both looked at He Yizhi, and the next moment they followed He Yizhi's back into the duty room.

He Yizhi was unaware that a human and a demon had followed him in. He entered the duty room, glanced around to see where Yu Minglu was, and saw Yu Minglu organizing medicinal herbs in the medicine cabinet. He walked over and called out, "Bai Ying!"

"You're back so soon?" Yu Minglu knew why He had gone to Huachun Palace to treat Xu Huiren. He thought that Xu Huiren, who was in such good health, rarely fell ill, and that his close friend would have to examine her thoroughly, so he wouldn't be back so soon. But he was wrong.

"Xu Huiren is not seriously ill. It's just that she has been overworking herself for years, which has caused her to fall ill." He Yizhi took Xu Huiren's pulse, but Xu Huiren was on guard and used the Qi Xiao technique to cover up her real internal injuries. He Yizhi did not detect the real illness pulse at all and thought it was just a case of not getting enough rest.

Yu Minglu paused, recalling what the palace maid from Huachun Palace had said when she came to the Imperial Hospital to fetch the imperial physician: "Didn't they say that Xu Huiren vomited blood? She vomited twice in one day. This doesn't seem like an illness caused by overwork."

“That’s what I thought too, but the pulse reading was just like that. To be on the safe side, I took her pulse twice more, checking both of Xu Huiren’s hands, but the result was still the same.” He Yi said directly, “Then I asked about Xu Huiren’s daily life and found that before today, Xu Huiren was perfectly fine and didn’t even sneeze.”

"Sudden vomiting of blood?"

"Yes, the illness came on suddenly..."

Next, Yu Minglu and He Yizhi discussed Xu Huiren's symptoms of vomiting blood in detail.

Ma Ji and Lan Zhijin exchanged a glance and didn't listen any further, since they couldn't understand any of the medical terminology.

The two went straight to Huachun Palace.

Huachun Palace was quite large, and it took Ma Ji and Lan Zhijin a lot of effort to find the room where Xu Huiren lived.

When the two reached the door, they smelled a faint scent of blood. Ma Ji nodded to Lan Zhijin.

It smells of decay.

Despite being a person skilled in magic, even though she practiced evil arts and was currently suffering from internal injuries, Xu Huiren remained very vigilant.

Just a few moments after Ma Ji and Lan Zhijin arrived outside her room, she woke up with a start and said to the tightly closed door of the outer room, "I'm fine, you don't need to guard me, go and rest."

She thought it was the young palace maid who served her who was worried about her and had come back to guard the porch outside the door in the middle of the night, so she called out to the young maid to go to sleep.

Ma Ji and Lan Zhijin listened without saying a word.

The two exchanged glances and moved out in unison to the corner of the small courtyard under the eaves.

I never heard Xu Huiren's voice again.

Xu Huiren was too vigilant. Ma Ji and Lan Zhijin stood far away in the corner before the two of them began to speak.

“Even though we were invisible, Xu Huiren could still sense that someone was outside the door. It seems that she is quite skilled and ruthless, and she is always very cautious.” Lan Zhijin is a human, and Xu Huiren is also a human. From a human perspective, considering that the butterfly demon and the wolf demon were controlled and driven in their previous lives, and ended up dying in a state of disfigurement, he expressed his opinion.

Ma Ji agreed: "It is precisely because they are so ruthless and cautious that the butterfly demon and the wolf demon can be discarded so easily, like a tattered rag that has been used up."

"What should we do now?" Lan Zhijin asked. He was there to help uncover the mastermind behind the two demons, and since he was there to help, he had to prioritize.

Ma Ji is the master, and he is the servant; whether to advance or retreat, he listens to Ma Ji.

Ma Ji pondered for a moment: "We were able to be detected even standing outside the door, which shows that our skills are still lacking. The young lady asked me to investigate the mastermind, and now that we have, let's go back and report to the young lady first, so as not to alert the enemy." Lan Zhijin had no objection.

The two then left the palace.

As the sun rose in the east, Meng Shisan had just finished his breakfast when Ma Ji entered the Meng residence.

Lan Zhijin also went to the Meng residence, but unlike Ma Ji who wanted to report to Meng Shisan, he came to the Meng residence so early today mainly because he wanted to go to the Kuangguang River with Huang Jing and Shui She.

"What are you doing following us? Xiaoqing and I are going to complete the mission I need to complete. You're not even surnamed Huang, what are you doing causing trouble?" Huang Jing didn't really want Lan Zhijin to come along, and his gaze towards Lan Zhijin inevitably carried a hint of disdain. "Don't go, go back to your little inn."

The water snake was still tucked in Huang Jing's pocket. Upon hearing this, it stretched out its head, its vertical pupils glancing at Lan Zhijin with an air of schadenfreude.

The same applies to camellias and grass carp.

The camellia's entire flower center faces the Blue Ashes, and the grass carp swims to the surface to look out of the tank, watching with utter concentration.

Huang Jing didn't notice, but Lan Zhijin did. He never expected that one day he would be laughed at by a snake and a flower fish.

Such a scene truly left him speechless.

“Xiao Qing’s surname isn’t Huang either.” Lan Zhijin had gone to Dingkuang Guanghe, and he didn’t argue with Huang Jing. Instead of their usual bickering, he responded softly.

Huang Jing was taken aback: "What's wrong? Are you sick? Or did something big happen to you and Master Ma in the palace last night?"

She then looked at Ming Xiaotang and said, "I need to hear it too. It's not too late to go to Kuangguang River after I've heard it..."

Lan Zhijin stretched out his long arm and pulled Huang Jing, who was walking towards Mingxiao Hall, back: "What do you want to hear? Ask me. I know everything that happened last night."

He then gestured for Huang Jing to walk outside: "Let's talk as we walk."

Huang Jing thought it was a good idea and nodded in agreement.

Huang Jing left the Meng residence with the water snake and Lan Zhijin. The two of them and the snake rode in a carriage to the Kuangguang River.

On the train, Huang Jing ate the pastries that Jin Yin had prepared for her while listening to Lan Zhijin recount the mastermind behind the manipulation of the butterfly demon and the wolf demon.

After Lan Zhijin finished speaking, the water snake sitting cross-legged opposite him said, "There is a well in the Taiyong Hall of the Eastern Palace. Previously, a demon resided in that well..."

Once he opened his mouth, Huang Jing and Lan Zhijin took turns asking questions, and they heard two previously unknown events about her and him from the water snake's mouth.

The first incident: ten years ago, Li Shou was almost seduced by the Well Spirit and drowned himself in the well in the middle of the night.

The second incident involved the water snake, which the demon couldn't defeat, and which was ultimately slain by Meng Shisan with his curved sickle.

"A curved sickle? I've never seen Yaoyao with that weapon before. I've only ever seen the silver flower vine whip on her body," Huang Jing said, puzzled.

Lan Zhijin nodded: "Miss Meng does not have the curved sickle you mentioned. According to your description, that curved sickle is quite large. If Miss Meng really has one, it's not appropriate for her to carry it around."

"Mmm!" Huang Jing agreed with Lan Zhijin's statement. "Xiao Qing, you're not lying to us, are you?"

"I didn't lie." The matter of Meng Shisan's natal weapon was indeed something the water snake had accidentally let slip by talking too much. Huang Jing and Lan Zhijin had questions, and it was impossible for it to explain anymore.