Red Mansion, Ningfu Scholarly Family

Chapter 322 The Ideals of the White Lotus Girl
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Yuanchun said seriously, "I'm not sure about this. I just heard the old lady mention it occasionally a few days ago."

Jia Rong nodded.

It seems that the Prince of Nan'an can no longer sit still over there.

Yes, one of his two sons became a living dead, and the other died directly. The entire eldest branch of the family was facing the risk of extinction. He had to ask for permission to come back, or try again and maybe have a son.

Should I give him a tough blow along the way?

No, after Mu Feng's assassination, the Prince of Nan'an must have been on guard. He might have already prepared everything, just waiting for the assassin to fall into his trap.

However... he could just quietly pay the White Lotus Sect to fall into the trap, then wouldn't the Jia family's suspicion be completely eliminated?

After returning home, Jia Rong wrote a letter and enclosed 50,000 silver notes in it.

Xiaoxiao hasn't come back yet, so we can only wait for a while. As for asking Senior Sister Mu to deliver the message... Jia Rong is not very confident about her.

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Prince Beijing's Palace, backyard.

There was a table for three people and more than a dozen dishes and drinks.

The three of them were busy talking, occasionally sipping a sip of wine, and they didn't touch the food on the table even though it was getting cold.

"According to the Crown Prince's wife, the Crown Prince has been behaving strangely since returning to the capital. He refuses to sleep with women, and his voice has become high-pitched. I suspect..."

Zhao Qin stopped talking here.

"Eunuch?"

"Is the prince a fake?"

Prince Beijing boldly put forward his own guess.

Zhao Qin shook her head. "It's possible that he was injured during the assassination. I asked the people who were preparing the coffin carefully, but they all said they didn't see it clearly and didn't know... It seems that we need to open the coffin and do an autopsy to get a result."

"Open the coffin and examine the body..." Prince Beijing hesitated for a moment and said, "Let me ask the old Concubine Dowager Nan'an for instructions."

"Then I'll take my leave now."

Zhao Qin stood up and bowed.

Prince Beijing and another handsome man in white stood up and walked her out of the ceremonial gate.

The handsome man in white looked at Detective Zhao's back and asked in confusion, "Brother, why are we so concerned about the Nan'an Palace? Why are we even taking the trouble to treat them to a meal?"

Prince Beijing's face darkened. "What do you know? The power of the Nan'an Palace in Yunnan is deeply rooted. If we can get their support, our palace will be even more powerful. By then, Prince Yi Zhong will have to look at our face."

"Now that the Ningguo Mansion has intervened, I feel very uncomfortable. Only by implicating Mu Feng's death with the Jia Mansion, will the Nan'an Palace completely break with the Jia Mansion and start cooperating with us instead."

The man in white suddenly realized: "Brother Rong is very far-sighted. I admire him."

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"Open the coffin and perform an autopsy!"

The Nan'an Concubine on the sickbed cried until her eyes turned red and shook her head: "No, absolutely not!"

Prince Beijing said helplessly: "The purpose of opening the coffin and conducting an autopsy is to find out the real murderer who killed Brother Mu. Does the old lady want Brother Mu to die with regrets?"

The Nan'an Concubine hesitated for a moment after hearing this. She certainly couldn't let her grandson die with his eyes wide open, but opening the coffin for an autopsy would undoubtedly disturb her grandson's rest, and she couldn't bear it...

"The prince is about to come home. Let him make the decision when he gets home. I, an old woman, won't do anything about it anymore." Concubine Nan'an said finally.

Prince Beijing was overjoyed: "Prince Mu is coming back to Beijing? That's great!"

For a while, after Prince Beijing left.

Yuanchun came in cautiously from outside: "Grandfather, are you feeling better?"

The Nan'an Concubine was not very fond of Yuanchun now, so she just replied casually: "It's OK. You don't have to come to pay respects all the time. Just rest at home."

Yuanchun's heart skipped a beat.

The rules of the Nan'an Palace are similar to those of the Jia Palace. Only people that the Nan'an Concubine likes can come to pay their respects. If the Nan'an Concubine says that there is no need to come to pay their respects, it means that she doesn't like them anymore.

Who knows, maybe it was Prince Beijing who instigated it!

"Grandfather, my granddaughter-in-law has only one thing to say, 'If someone is too nice to you for no reason, he is either a traitor or a thief.' You'd better be careful." Yuanchun said quietly, then quickly apologized and returned to the yard.

This is a thorn planted. Even if the Concubine Nan'an will not be fooled, she will definitely be thinking about it in her mind.

Is Prince Beijing's mind pure?

impossible.

The Nan'an Palace is now facing extinction, and everyone is just trying to take advantage of it. ...

Xiaoxiao came back that day and brought a secret letter from Bai Caier.

Jia Rong looked at it and smiled slightly: "Xiao Xiao, I have another thing to trouble you with."

Xiao Xiao asked: "What?"

Jia Rong took out the letter he had written earlier and said, "Give this to Bai Cai'er. Remember to burn it after she reads it. No trace should be left."

Xiao Xiao took the letter and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Master. I will. But I have been out for so long and have been sleeping in the open air. Master, please prepare a table of wine and food tonight and serve me well."

"No problem at all."

"But can you come back tonight?"

"Yes." Xiao Xiao nodded: "Cai'er is in Kyoto."

"She's here again? What for?"

"You didn't tell me. You just said you were just wandering around."

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Jia Rong: "...Can you keep an eye on her?"

Xiao Xiao thought for a moment and said, "It's not easy to deal with. That girl is too excited."

"That's fine, go ahead... Wait!"

"What's wrong?"

Xiao Xiao turned around and asked.

Jia Rong said, "Since she is in the capital, I'd better go and see her in person. Do you know where she is?"

"know."

"Then, let's go."

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Zuiyunlou Inn.

Bai Cai'er lay on the bed, fanning herself in an annoyed manner.

The main reason she came to Beijing this time was to meet a super important figure...the leader of the White Lotus Sect!
By the way, they also sent over the 500,000 taels of silver that the White Lotus Sect had worked so hard to save over the past year.

The leader of the White Lotus Sect is very mysterious. Only two or three people in the entire White Lotus Sect know his identity.

She is one of them.

Her master once vaguely mentioned the identity of the leader.

Legend has it that the leader of the White Lotus was once a prince. Because he failed in his bid for the throne from the current emperor, he ran to the White Lotus and worshipped the former leader as his godfather, determined to take back the throne that belonged to him.

The reason why the White Lotus Sect was passed to him was because this prince swore that if he became an emperor one day, he would enshrine the White Lotus Sect as a religion to protect the country.

Bai Caier, however, was somewhat disapproving of this.

The White Lotus Sect is a rebel.

No matter who becomes the emperor, the first thing he would probably do is to eradicate the White Lotus to prevent future troubles. How could he possibly worship it?

Unless the emperor is a fool.

"This is the hard-earned money that my men and I have worked so hard to earn, and we are actually giving it to the leader... hehe!"

"The leader is so powerful, why doesn't he make money himself!"

The more I think about it, the angrier I get.

But there was nothing she could do.

Although she is the Saint of the White Lotus Sect and can be said to be in a high position of power, she is still far inferior to the Sect Leader.

If she kept the money, her master would have kicked her out without anyone else's help.

"Hey! Fortunately, I am smart. I made a lot of salt tickets this year and hid them privately."

"After another year or two, when I have saved up some dowry, I will change my name and identity and become a young lady. You can do whatever you want to me!"

The more Bai Caier thought about it, the happier she became. She seemed to see herself taking care of her husband and children, and the warmth of a happy family.

"Dong dong dong..."

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(End of this chapter)