The heroine Jiangshan

Chapter 13 Nie Shen's True Face
No one except Nie Shen and Ye Shenyan knew that Yun Ruochen was not in the room when the villa was attacked.

Lian Yinqiao and Lian Zhi also thought that the princess had been staying in the back room with Steward Nie and did not leave.That night, Nie Shen tried his best to infuse Yun Ruochen with a lot of true energy, and he dared not leave until her breathing calmed down.

Prince Jing originally assigned him to take people to guard Yun Ruochen's courtyard, but no one in the other courtyard was surprised by his actions.In fact, the actions of the thieves that night were so terrible that everyone was frightened and restless, and the villa was in chaos, and no one could care about others.

Prince Jing was fine, but Concubine Huang was frightened and her fetus was moved again, and she turned slightly red.Under the timely rescue by the medical officer of the royal family, the child was saved, but the concubine Huang became weaker.

The news that the little princess was also frightened and fell ill was not surprising.The medical officers came to take the pulse, but they couldn't see why, so they only prescribed some calming medicine for Yun Ruochen to take.

"...Those people were completely dressed as refugees, and they were very careful not to bring swords, and their weapons were all sticks..."

Ye Shenyan softly reported to Yun Ruochen the follow-up of the incident that day.

Yun Ruochen had someone set up a soft couch under the grape trellis in the corner of the small courtyard, and right now she was reclining on the soft couch to rest, taking the opportunity to absorb some yang energy.The forcible practice that day damaged her heart, and she couldn't recover with Nie Shen's true energy alone, but breathing in more yang fire could dispel the evil spirit in her chest as soon as possible.

Yin Qiao and Lian Zhi stood not far away, waiting for the Princess' call, and looked this way curiously from time to time.The princess really cared about this young man, not to mention changing his name, and often asked him to come and serve him.It stands to reason that a servant should not enter the inner courtyard, but the princess is always so careless...

Fortunately, it was in the villa, and the prince doted on the princess and ignored her, otherwise, these big maids would have to follow suit.

"Is there anyone alive?"

Ye Shenyan shook his head: "No, except for those who ran away, the rest are all lifeless."

"Ugh……"

Yun Ruochen sighed with a wry smile, rubbed his eyebrows and didn't speak.

Needless to say, the so-called "refugees" who didn't run away were quickly cut off from their vitality because they were invaded by the evil spirit of her Jiugong Bagua Formation.

She still can't control the strength.

In the end, the sensational incident of the prince being attacked was concluded based on the conclusion that "some victims were dissatisfied and were evacuated to nearby towns, intending to retaliate against His Highness Prince Jing who initiated the proposal and rob food and property".

There is no proof of death... Those who think that Prince Jing will let it go are too naive.

It is true that Prince Jing is timid and has a bottom line.He may not be able to distinguish the hidden arrows in the past, but this time it is a bright spear, and if he doesn't fight back, what will the ministers and nobles who are in the same camp as him think?
But from Yun Ruochen's point of view, Prince Jing doesn't need to take action, he just needs to pretend to be a victim for the time being.

Because Emperor Yuan Qi would never ignore this matter.

Even though he had never met Emperor Yuan Qi, Yun Ruochen intuitively believed that it was impossible for an emperor who could sit firmly on the throne for 35 years to tolerate someone mischievous beside his couch.He can laugh off the open and secret struggle between his two sons, and even deliberately provoke the two to fight to create a balance and consolidate his rule, but...

This time, it was still too much.

Yun Ruochen was even thinking, if this matter was really instigated by King Cheng, how much hatred does the person who gave him this idea have against him?
"Refugees"?Just kidding, which refugee is so well-informed, knows that the evacuation of the victims was initiated by Prince Jing, and can make such a smooth journey to King Jing's other courtyard, really think everyone else is a fool?
Yun Ruochen even had a feeling that maybe... this time, King Cheng did not do it.

Where she doesn't know, there are third-party forces eyeing the throne, trying to muddy the water?

Originally, Yishun Tianfu Yin meant that he really didn't want Prince Jing's family to stay in this wilderness anymore.It's okay this time, what about next time?

However, King Jing was able to walk, but Huang Fangfei and Xiaojunzhu both fell ill, and they couldn't stand the bumpy journey.Since Concubine Huang's pregnancy was less than three months old, Prince Jing did not dare to reveal the news of her pregnancy casually for fear of ruining the baby's luck, so he excused himself not to move for the time being because he was unwell.

It only hurt the officials of Shuntian Mansion, big and small, and they had to urgently deploy two teams of troops from the Beijing Battalion to station around Prince Jing's Mansion, surrounding the villa like an iron barrel.

After recuperating for a few days, Yun Ruochen recovered from his weakness.

"Wangxing Tower..."

Lying halfway under the grape trellis in the small courtyard enjoying the sun, Yun Ruochen squinted his eyes and looked at the Wangxing Tower in the distance, and the shelves full of books in the small building appeared in his mind.

If she guessed correctly, those books might all be books of spells.In the few years after Concubine Jing's death, Nie Shen took care of this villa. He deliberately locked the Wangxing Building to make it look like it was deserted, but he often came to the building alone to clean it...

But Nie Shen probably doesn't know how to spell, Yun Ruochen can still judge this point.

Is he just guarding those classics?
Yun Ruochen was deeply curious about the collection in Wangxing Tower.Similarly, she was also very curious about her concubine who died young.

To what extent did the concubine mother's cultivation reach before her death?

"Yinqiao, change clothes for me, I'll go see Huang Niangniang."

Although Yun Ruochen said that his energy and blood were still weak, he couldn't help but care about the baby boy in Concubine Huang's belly.If the child couldn't be kept, even if King Cheng didn't invite the old emperor to see him, the chances of their successors in Prince Jing's family were still pitifully small.

Fortunately, she found that Huang's concubine's fetal image was much more stable than she thought.It was the calming formation she set up before that protected Huang Fangfei's mother and child, so although Huang Fangfei was also frightened that night, it was not serious enough to cause a miscarriage.

Prince Jing was also guarding in the concubine Huang's room, seeing his daughter approaching with a pale face, he couldn't help but hugged her distressedly: "Since you are sick, you should rest in the room, why come out and walk around."

Yun Ruochen smiled at his father: "It's okay father, Chen'er is much better, and wants to come out to get some air."

Concubine Huang only sat with a smile on the sidelines and watched the father and daughter make out, her expression could not be described as joyful, but she was not in conflict.

That night, a meal was set up in Concubine Huang's room, and it was rare for the family of three to dine at the same table, and the atmosphere was quite harmonious.Concubine Huang noticed that when eating with Yun Ruochen, Prince Jing's appetite was much better than before, and they talked and laughed.

Fortunately, she is a daughter... Concubine Huang secretly glanced at her stomach and sighed.

In the eyes of others, no matter how noble the princess is, in the end, he just recruited a county makai mansion to live a leisurely life, and his influence is limited.

At night, Yun Ruochen couldn't let go of the ancient books in the Wangxing Tower.Like many times in the past, she left the courtyard where she lived without any hindrance, and wanted to go to the Wangxing Tower to find out in person.

She walked freely in the courtyard, and even the servants who patrolled by occasionally couldn't sense her breath.But before she got to the Star Tower, she was attracted by a corner of the gray robe that flashed across the courtyard wall in front of her!

"Nie Shen?"

It's midnight, what is he doing out there?
Yun Ruochen turned his palm, and a copper coin appeared in his palm.She calculated quickly for a moment, then made a bold decision.

Follow up and have a look!
With her currently lifeless physique, it is not easy to track down a master like Nie Shen.Fortunately, she was able to take Nie Shen's general position. If he didn't go too far, she might still be able to follow him.

Nie Shen leaped over the courtyard wall with ease, and flitted through the air like a big gray bird, without disturbing the officers and soldiers guarding nearby.

He passed through the Shengmen in the Bagua Bagua formation in the bamboo forest with ease, and walked around towards the back mountain.

This villa is built on the back of the mountain, and few people set foot on the back mountain, which is full of dense forests.Nie Shen took advantage of the night to enter the back mountain from a mountain road paved with bluestone slabs.

Just as the officers and soldiers on guard didn't notice his presence, he also didn't realize that there was a small "stalker" far behind him.Yun Ruochen's "Wood and Stone Lost Track" evasion technique can mix his own breath with vegetation, mountains and rocks, which is difficult for ordinary people to detect.

"Back Mountain?"

Yun Ruochen followed the instructions of the hexagram and went inside suspiciously.She grew up in Mount Qingcheng in her previous life, and walking on mountain roads was nothing to her.It's just that this body is too weak, she can't speed up, she can only move forward slowly.

In this way, the chance of her being discovered by Nie Shen is even smaller.

Nie Shen didn't seem to have any plans to go far away. Not long after, Yun Ruochen found that his anger had stopped somewhere in the mountains.

Yun Ruochen tied the skirt around his waist and walked carefully step by step, for fear of disturbing Nie Shen.

She had a hunch that tonight, maybe she could get more information about her mysterious butler.

She walked slowly for half an hour, then suddenly stopped and listened with her ears.Apart from the sound of the wind blowing the pines and the night owl's neighing, it seems that there are other movements around?

Is it the sound of water?Is there a stream here?

Sure enough, after walking dozens of steps, she saw a clear stream flowing out from the forest.Walking along the stream, Nie Shen's anger became more and more obvious, he should be nearby!

The bushes gradually thinned out, and there seemed to be a relatively flat field ahead.Yun Ruochen was holding on to a tall old tree and was about to step through the grass when he suddenly saw Nie Shen.No, then... is that Nie Shen?
Yeah...

She covered her mouth tightly with one hand, blocked the exclamation that almost blurted out, and stared at someone sitting on the boulder in the open space without blinking.

From a distance, she first saw a head of black and thick long hair cascading from his shoulders to the ground.The dark ink-like hair seems to be spiritual, gently blowing with the evening wind, setting off his face like a faint ice and snow.

That's not the skin color of ordinary people, but it looks like the paleness of people who haven't seen the sun for years.

The sharp and stern face was so perfect that it was suffocating, but his real age could not be seen.His deep eyes were half-lidded, he was thinking about something, or waiting for something...

He is not Nie Shen.Or, at this moment, he is not the "Nie Shen" that people are familiar with at all, he has become another person.Only the dusty robe reminded Yun Ruochen of his original identity.

As early as the first time she saw Nie Shen, she knew clearly that that mediocre face was not his true face.As a physiognomist who is proficient in physiognomy, looking at faces is only a basic skill, no matter how perfect his mask is, he can't hide it from her eyes.

That's why she asked him to reset the Jiugong gossip array for her to test his details.She knew from the very beginning that he was not an ordinary person, but she never expected that his real appearance was...

(End of this chapter)