The daughter of the Marquis is too delicate, the abstinent prince pinches her waist and loves her

Chapter 189 Visiting the Duke’s Mansion at Night

Duke Bai felt a chill run down his spine. Had Zhi Xing been with Bai Muling all along?
"What did you find?"

"We discovered that Crown Princess Xie pushed Crown Princess Bai into the lotus pond! Crown Princess Bai tried to struggle, but we also discovered that Crown Princess Xie was casting some kind of spell. Even the flowers, plants, and trees in the Imperial Garden started moving. After a dizzying moment, Crown Princess Bai... was dead..."

Duke Bai's eyes were bloodshot. He strode forward, grabbed Chunyu's hair, and said, "Why didn't you report such a big thing?!"

Chunyu frowned in pain and cried, "I was afraid my life would be in danger. His Highness deliberately protected her and sent her to the Imperial Censor's house to become Miss Xie. Later... later he married her into the family... At that time, many servants in the mansion were killed to silence them. I really didn't have the courage to say it!"

Duke Bai staggered back two steps, feeling as if his steps were weightless.

The person he met at the Xie residence that day was none other than the murderer who killed his daughter!
Bai Muling's body was barely cold when he actually submitted a memorial to support the murderer as the new Crown Princess!
"Absurd...absurd!" Duke Bai's eyes widened in anger, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Master! Master!" The steward helped Duke Bai up.

Duke Bai slowly regained his senses, grabbed the steward's arm tightly, and waved his other hand trembling toward the door: "Quickly... I must report to the Emperor..."

No... that vicious woman still has dirt on Bai Muling...

Duke Bai was so anxious and angry that he almost fainted again.

He clenched his fists tightly, forcing himself not to collapse. After a moment's thought, his aged eyes darted around, and he said, "Quickly, go to the Western Shu embassy and contact Princess Mingyao. Tell her..."

"Yes."

At the embassy, ​​Hongling stepped forward and reported to Mu Xiyang, who was sitting on the soft couch: "Princess, news has come from the Duke's Mansion, asking for your help. They have found a scapegoat for the matter that has been troubling you."

Upon hearing this, Mu Xiyang, who had been feigning sleep, opened her eyes. Hong Ling leaned down and whispered in her ear.

Mu Xiyang tapped the ground lightly with her hand, which was lazily resting on her lap, and asked, "Where is the Second Princess?"

"Still in the outskirts of Beijing."

Upon hearing this, Mu Xiyang raised his hand, and a Thousand-Mile Transmission Gu crawled out from his sleeve. He whispered to the Gu worm, "Jiyue, hurry back."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Gu worms on the back of his hand scattered into a wisp of red smoke and disappeared into the air.

Two hours later.

Mu Jiyue, covered in sweat, knelt down beside Mu Xiyang, still panting heavily, and looked at Mu Xiyang in fear, asking, "What is it, Eldest Sister?"

Mu Xiyang reached out and grabbed her ear, saying, "Your schedule is quite slow."

Mu Jiyue gritted her teeth in pain, lowered her head, and dared not resist. She said pitifully, "I haven't gotten the Moonlight Jade Pendant yet, so I dare not go back so soon..."

Mu Xiyang snorted contemptuously, withdrew her hand, and said, "Do you know that because you used a Gu on the Empress Dowager of Western Shu, the Gu that I had been sleeping peacefully for eight years has become agitated. Two years... just two more years, and I will be able to control the Zhu Luo Kingdom."

"Slap!" A vicious slap landed on her face.

"Incompetent bungler!"

Mu Jiyue's heart pounded with anxiety, her eyes darting away in fear: "I'm sorry... Eldest Sister, Jiyue was too foolish..."

"Alright." Mu Xiyang interrupted her impatiently, saying, "I summoned you back not to scold you, but to give you a chance to make amends. Go, bring me pen and ink."

Seeing that Mu Xiyang let her go so easily, Mu Jiyue secretly breathed a sigh of relief, a look of pleasure in her eyes, and said obsequiously, "Yes, yes!"

At dawn, Duke Bai escorted Chunyu to the Golden Palace. Ye Jinfeng, who had been woken up, rubbed his aching brow bone impatiently and looked at Duke Bai kneeling on the ground with displeasure, saying, "Minister Bai, you said you have something of utmost importance to report. You'd better not be trying to fool me."

"This old minister dares not!" The Duke of Bai's eyes were filled with resentment and anger. He bowed his head and said, "This old minister has suffered a great injustice. I beg Your Majesty to do justice for this old minister!"

"Oh? Tell me."

"Your Majesty, I have finally found the real culprit behind the death of the Crown Princess Bai."

There is no conclusive evidence that Bai Muling's death was caused by Sheng Yunqing. This matter has always been a mystery. The Empress Dowager urged him to investigate several times, but he was still completely baffled.

He narrowed his eyes and asked, "Who is it?"

"It is the current Crown Princess Xie!"

Ye Jinfeng looked on incredulously: "What did you say?"

Duke Bai waved his hand, signaling the guards to bring Chunyu over, and said to her, "Tell me everything you know."

Chunyu knelt before Ye Jinfeng, kowtowed, and said, "Your Majesty, I was once a maidservant to the Crown Princess Bai. That day in the Imperial Garden, I witnessed with my own eyes that it was Crown Princess Xie who murdered Crown Princess Bai."

Ye Jinfeng frowned and said, "Before the death of Crown Princess Bai, Crown Princess Xie had not yet entered the capital. How could she have entered the Imperial Garden?"

"Your Majesty may not know, but the true identity of Crown Princess Xie is actually Zhi Xing, who once served Your Highness as a personal maid!"

At the same time, two figures were lurking in front of the Duke's mansion.

I heard that the Duke of Bai entered the palace late at night, when the guards were lax.

After evading the guards, Ye Jinchen tried to walk towards the study, but Sheng Yunqing stopped him.

"Wait." Sheng Yunqing narrowed his eyes slightly, golden light surging in them as he saw the deep blue Gu worm hidden in the dark corner.

Following her gaze, Ye Jinchen used his sword to lift one of them and placed it in front of Sheng Yunqing.

Sheng Yunqing stared at the Gu worm on the ground, which was writhing and struggling under the sword's edge, and said, "It's a Mind-Seeking Gu."

With a "snap," Ye Jinchen pierced the Gu worm with force and said, "It seems that Princess Mingyao and Duke Bai have a long-standing connection, which is why she is covering for him like this."

Sheng Yunqing tossed a packet of realgar powder from her sleeve and sprinkled it on the swarm of Gu worms. The Gu worms instantly became agitated, struggled a few times, and then died.

She affixed two invisibility talismans to herself and Ye Jinchen, looked down at the direction indicated by the compass in her arms, walked over, looked at the boulder in front of her, turned the mechanism hidden in the grass, and the boulder moved away automatically, revealing an underground palace.

The moment the stone gate moved, a swarm of winged, bloodthirsty Gu worms flew towards the two of them.

Ye Jinchen reacted swiftly, striking the Gu worms one by one with his sword. In no time, the corpses lying on the ground turned into white powder, which floated in the air.

Ye Jinchen looked at the steps of the underground palace and said, "It seems that the secret may not be in the study."

Sheng Yunqing suddenly felt a little nervous; hidden within was her sister's secret...

She couldn't bear to think about what her sister had gone through all these years.

Ye Jinchen took her slightly cold hand and walked into the staircase, where the boulder slowly closed up.

The underground palace was riddled with traps. Behind a dilapidated wooden door, there were layers upon layers of real gold and silver. Her eyes darkened slightly. Over the years, the Duke of Bai had been all-powerful, secretly embezzling countless people's life-saving funds.