Misty Rain of the Old Times

Chapter 130 It’s all a coincidence!
Outside the city, Gao Jingyu changed back into Qingdou's appearance, and the few of them returned to Gao's house before nightfall.

Before they separated, Leng Bing requested a few days off as she needed to consolidate and stabilize her cultivation, strive to cultivate the Xuanyin internal force as soon as possible, and prepare for entering the Xiantian realm in the future.

She was asking Gao Jingming for help. After all, she was now a member of the Gao family, and Gao Jingyu was a married lady after all.

But after Gao Jingming asked Gao Jingyu's opinion, he waved his hand and approved Leng Bing for half a month's leave. He asked her if it was enough, and she said it was enough.

Then the few of them separated, and Gao Jingming and his sister went to their mother's place. Before they separated, Gao Jingyu specifically told Chen Xuan not to mention what happened today to anyone in the Gao family. After all, Leng Bing would still live here in the future, so he had to consider her face.

Chen Xuan naturally agreed not to spread the news.

But it caused such a big fuss in Jiming Town that it would definitely spread and would be known sooner or later.

But then Chen Xuan thought again, only a few people in the Gao family knew about Leng Bing's affairs. Jiming Town was so far away, and Leng Bing's name was not mentioned at that time. It seemed that few people would associate it with her. It was just a guess at most.

Because of the different mindsets, some speculations can only be buried deep in my heart for the time being. Chen Xuan still has time to think about why he destroyed other people's teahouses into that state, and it seems that he didn't compensate when he left?

They should have compensated, after all, there were not only Chen Xuan and his group, but also other servants of the Gao family.

The moon was bright and the stars were sparse, but Chen Xuan had no desire to sleep that night and read until late at night. After Gao Jingming came back, he practiced martial arts for a while and then rested, as if nothing had happened.

After two more days of peace, the princess returned to the old house accompanied by her family. The princess went home to visit her relatives, not just her natal family, but also to worship her ancestors, which was the most important thing. She went there as a princess, not as the eldest daughter of the Gao family, and she was accompanied by the royal guards. She would be gone for a few days.

Gao Jingming, Xiao Cai and others also accompanied them, but Chen Xuan did not go because he was an outsider after all.

After they left, Chen Xuan was the only one left in Gao Jingming's courtyard. Only then did he dare to close the door and review the situation silently.

Some things are terrifying when you think about them carefully. When Gao Jingyu was around, he didn't even dare to think too much, for fear that someone would find out. Occasionally, some guesses flashed through his mind, and Chen Xuan felt a chill in his bones.

Thinking carefully about Leng Bing's entire experience from the perspective of an outsider like Chen Xuan, he always felt that there was something strange about it and everything was too coincidental.

Why, after just two days of settling in, was Gao Jingyu so eager to bring up Leng Bing's situation? Was it really just a matter of sisterly concern? They weren't even real sisters, and she'd even put aside the all-important ancestral worship rituals of her family's visit!
Gao Jingyu seemed a little anxious, as if something was urging her to finalize some things before she could go about visiting her relatives and worshiping her ancestors with peace of mind...

"No, this kind of random thinking is pointless. I need to sort it out. Let's use a timeline approach. If I unravel it, I'm sure I'll find some clues."

Thinking this in his mind, Chen Xuan looked around carefully. Seeing that there was no one around, he pulled out a piece of paper and began to write and draw in his native simplified Chinese.

First of all, Leng Bing, when did she come to the Gao family?
Recalling the information he had learned, Chen Xuan wrote down these three numbers from eight years ago. The Gao family must have had specific records, but he couldn't possibly look through the records for no reason, as it might backfire.

Leng Bing came to the Gao family eight years ago, which means that she had known Gao Jingyu before and they definitely had been together for some time.

Eight years ago, Gao Jingyu married Prince Qing, and Leng Bing came to the Gao family during that period.

Then Chen Xuan recalled Yang Xin’s resume. He passed the imperial examination and became a scholar at the age of nineteen. Now he is twenty-seven years old. That is to say, Yang Xin also passed the imperial examination and became a scholar eight years ago!

Coincidentally, after Yang Xin passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, he left the Gu family and escaped the execution of the entire Gu family two years later.

In the same year as the beheading incident in Lanfeng County, that is, six years ago, Chen Xuan came to the Gao family.

Several things happened that year, not counting Chen Xuan's daily life trivia. First, Gao Jingyu gave birth to a son, the first son for Prince Qing, and Eunuch Li came to announce the good news. Then, because of Chen Xuan, the beheading incident in Lanfeng County occurred. Then Yang Xin went to Yushan School to be a teacher!

Is this really just a coincidence?

Two or three years later, Leng Bing met Yang Xin. It was a very ordinary encounter, and then as time went by, Leng Bing's temperament changed drastically two days ago!
Eight years ago, six years ago, three years ago, recently...

After the timeline was sorted out, Chen Xuan felt a chill in his heart that went straight to the top of his head.

Perhaps Gao Jingyu had been planning everything for today since the year she married Prince Qing. Everything in the process was a "coincidence," and multiple coincidences converged to form today.

If, if everything was Gao Jingyu's plan, then what did she want?
strength!

Chen Xuan wrote down these two words, paused, and added, "Enough strength to protect her mother's family." Then Chen Xuan circled the three words "innate master."

In this martial arts world, there are only a handful of masters in the entire Jing Kingdom. Such existence is comparable to the country's most important nuclear bomb, a foundation-level existence. Unless it is a major event, it will not affect that level.

In this case, innate masters become particularly important.

If the Gao family had a congenital master in charge, they could not rest easy, but at least they could protect the lives of several key figures. After all, Yang County is remote and there is no one who can be called a master in the territory. Having a congenital master in charge is as stable as Mount Tai!
Soon Chen Xuan crossed out the words "innate master", wrote down the three words "Gao Jingyu", and then added the word "rights" after her name.

When he saw the word "rights", Chen Xuan felt a heavy pressure rising in his heart.

Taking a deep breath, Chen Xuan muttered in his heart: "What a Gao Jingyu, a congenital master. She gave birth to the first son of Prince Qing, so how could she be content with the position of concubine? If she wants to go further, she must be the queen!"

"But is being a queen that easy? If her family can't give her much help, then she can only rely on herself. But she wants to become queen, how dangerous is that? Why doesn't she first consider whether her family will be implicated?"

"So this place needs at least one innate master to take charge, so she can let go and do her own thing."

"So, she might marry Prince Qing... No, when she decided to marry Prince Qing, she started making plans. Sending Leng Bing to the Gao family in advance was the first step. At that time, she might not have many people she could trust, and Leng Bing was one of them."

'And 'coincidentally', the information Liu Changhe gave me mentioned that Feiyu Sect has a superior martial art called Xuanyin True Art, which requires a virgin to practice and must be free from all emotions. Otherwise, the mindset will not be compatible, and if you cannot practice Xuanyin Internal Art, you will have no hope of reaching the Xiantian realm!'

Thinking of this, Chen Xuan took a breath.

With so many coincidences coming together, if he still couldn't see this was a setup, he'd be a fool. Perhaps Leng Bing was just a casual move at first, dispensable, but after Gao Jingyu gave birth to Prince Qing's first child, things changed. She needed to prepare in advance to pave the way for her ambitions.

It was from that time that Leng Bing entered the game. In the same year, Yang Xin went to Yushan School to be a teacher. At the beginning of that year, Gao Jingming went to Yushan School to study. As the person specially sent by Gao Jingyu to protect Gao Jingming, Leng Bing naturally had to accompany him back and forth.

Yang Xin had been teaching for several years, and then one day he happened to meet Leng Bing...

Now that Leng Bing has discovered Yang Xin's 'true face', her temperament has changed drastically, and she has become in line with the state of mind required to practice Xuanyin Zhengong, but she still remains a virgin!

"This... is a bit scary. No wonder Gao Jingyu first lifted Leng Bing's sleeve to check for the toad's blood. If the toad's blood was not there, I'm afraid nothing would have happened later."

"The most coincidental thing is that Yang Xin has psychological problems and is not interested in women. He has remained a virgin despite being infatuated for several years."

"And if a woman falls in love with a man to the point of wanting to die, she will at least lose her virginity to him!"

"Damn, my scalp is tingling. Everything is just right!"

If Chen Xuan had not achieved great success in his cultivation, he would have been sweating coldly at this moment.

What made him feel a little cold was that was it really just a coincidence that caused the beheading incident in Lanfeng County six years ago?
Could it be that this was a conspiracy between Gao Jingyu and Mr. Yushan, and I was just there by chance?

Mr. Yushan is a man with "ideas". After a few years of getting along with him, Chen Xuan has roughly seen this. He even suspects that the accident that happened to him when he went to Beijing to take the exam was not an accident. It was just that due to reality, he now has to stay in the small place of Yushan.

Gao Jingyu is likely unwilling to be a concubine, so there is a premise for cooperation between them.

It was not Chen Xuan's random guess, it had a basis. After all, Gao Jingming became Mr. Yushan's disciple at the age of five, and Gao Jingyu entered the Xiantian realm at the age of seventeen. That was the year she met Prince Qing. Several events happened in the same year, and Gao Jingyu married Prince Qing the following year at the age of eighteen.

Isn't this a coincidence?
So why did Chen Xuan believe that Mr. Yushan and Gao Jingyu had worked together to orchestrate the plot six years ago? It was because Yang Xin had once served as a servant in the Gu family, the very family that was beheaded. Only Yang Xin escaped death and shortly thereafter went to Yushan Academy, where he later met Leng Bing. Could this be a cover-up for Yang Xin?

If this is true, Gao Jingyu is too scary, and Mr. Yushan is not an easy person to deal with either. Everything is interconnected, and they have been planning for many years, and they have made use of every available opportunity.

What's even more coincidental is that when they went to look for Yang Xin two days ago, they didn't arrive early or late, but arrived just when Yang Xin and Mr. Wu had an appointment, and were just in time to be met by Leng Bing!

After they left, the two men committed suicide out of shame and anger!

After sorting out the whole incident to this point, Chen Xuan already had a general idea in his mind. It was most likely directed by Gao Jingyu. She was ambitious and needed a reliable expert to take charge of the Gao family to solve her worries.

Forget about the talk of sisterly love.

First and foremost, Gao Jingyu is the princess!
The imperial family is the most ruthless. After all, she is now a member of the royal family. Would she care about the wild sisterhood that has not been seen for just eight years?
Given her status as a princess, the best thing is what can be used by her, and the so-called emotions are just a joke.

After having a general idea, Chen Xuan looked at the paper with his messy writing on it, activated his internal energy, and blew out a breath, turning the paper into powder, which disappeared without a trace.

"I'm just a little book boy, only eleven years old, carefree and innocent. Just pretend you know nothing."

Chen Xuan was a little scared. If it weren't for Ze Yuan Jue's extraordinary characteristics and his ability to hide, if Gao Jingyu had discovered his current level of cultivation, it would have been a big mess. He would definitely have found ways to take advantage of him. Fortunately, the other party didn't find out.

Chen Xuan has been in the Gao family for many years and does owe the Gao family anything, but he does not owe Gao Jingyu anything. He has to make this clear. That's why he doesn't want to be a knife for such an ambitious woman.

If I have to repay a favor, I should repay the Gao family. What does Gao Jingyu have to do with it? Have you ever given me a penny in all these years?

Anyway, it's all coincidence, I know nothing.

Then again, as the person involved, did Leng Bing really not notice anything at all?
Looking back, it is worth considering why she avoided Gao Jingyu's hand holding after her temperament changed drastically that day.

In her heart, she thought Yang Xin was just a pathetic creature, and so was she. Could it be that she really hadn't noticed anything at all? Then she said that she didn't blame Yang Xin, but should thank him. Was this really just her true thoughts after seeing the truth about that person?

If she doesn't blame Yang Xin, who else should she blame? Should she blame herself for being blind?
Thanking Yang Xin, is it really just a thank you for the other party's 'kindness of not marrying him'? Could it be that he is thanking Yang Xin, because it was because of him that Leng Bing saw some people clearly?

If this is true, then the words she expressed her loyalty later must be true. She did owe Gao Jingyu. Gao Jingyu's kindness to her is still there, but his feelings for her are no longer there.

From then on, Leng Bing was just a machine for repaying favors. Until the day she died, she would have repaid Gao Jingyu's favor and would no longer owe him anything.

She said Yang Xin was pitiful and pathetic, and so was she.

This is because she might have understood at that time that both herself and Yang Xin were just chess pieces whose fate was controlled at will by others.

We are all pitiful creatures, and the meaning of our existence is just to achieve certain goals for certain people!
Perhaps this time when Gao Jingyu returns home to visit his parents, there will be something interesting to watch at Prince Qing's Mansion. It will take three to five years at most, probably depending on when Leng Bing can cultivate the Xuanyin Zhengong and reach the Xiantian realm.

But what does that have to do with Chen Xuan, a little book boy who has some internal strength?

"Forget it. I'm in the Gao family. If Gao Jingyu really gets into trouble, it would be strange if I could stay out of it. Damn, I'm still young and of no use. Otherwise, how could I live a peaceful life? What the hell are you dreaming of?"

Over the years, Chen Xuan always felt that the Gao family was harmonious and harmonious, and that he was just out of reach. But now, it seems that there are clearly dark clouds gathering over the Gao family!
But no matter what, it is a fact that the Gao family treats him well. If the Gao family is really in danger, he will not stand idly by, but he will not risk his life.

Everyone, whether human or ghost, is showing off, only Leng Bing is the most pitiful.

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(End of this chapter)