After leaving the yard, Liu Qingyun was about to shake off Lu Zhaoyan's hand, but Lu Zhaoyan took the initiative to let go.

"after……"

"Humph!"

Liu Qingyun left angrily.

Cui Hu walked silently to Lu Zhaoyan's side, looking at Liu Qingyun's back, who didn't recognize any relatives, and couldn't help but say: "Your Highness, you have come here for nothing, and she doesn't appreciate it at all."

Lu Zhaoyan said coldly: "Nothing to do?"

Cui Hu opened his mouth: "...I'm going to find Ji Feng."

Lu Zhaoyan was worried, so he called a maid and asked her to go to the main courtyard to check on Liu Qingyun.

After a while, the maid came back to report.

Lu Zhaoyan frowned: "So fast? What's the emergency?"

The maid said, "She fell asleep."

Lu Zhaoyan: “…”

-

Tan'er asked Shang Wuyou to find out the information about the jade pendant. Unexpectedly, Shang Wuyou found out quite quickly.

At noon the next day, he went to Elder Yan's courtyard with the news.

Tan'er sat on the swing and ate grass.

That's right, grass.

She ate too many candied haws, so Meng Qianqian asked her to chew a tooth-protecting herb to prevent her teeth from decaying.

Meng Qianqian was still drying the medicinal herbs.

Shang Wuyou asked in confusion: "Elder Yan only lets you dry the herbs every day, and doesn't let you do anything else? For example, teach you martial arts?"

How can there be such a master?

Meng Qianqian curled her lips: "Wuyou is concerned about me?"

Shang Wuyou turned his face away: "I didn't!"

Tan'er was swinging on the swing, and the wind whistled past Shang Wuyou's head: "Master, have you found out?"

Shang Wuyou straightened his back and said, "I found out."

"ah!"

Tan Er tapped the ground with her toes and stopped the swing. "Tell me now! Tell me now!"

Shang Wuyou cleared his throat: "I'm thirsty."

Tan'er immediately poured him a cup of herbal tea.

He took a sip: "I'm a little hungry."

Tan'er took out the candied haws that she had hidden away and gave them to him with reluctance.

Shang Wuyou held the candied haws and said, "Today is a bit hot..."

Before he could finish his words, Tan'er punched him and knocked him down.

Shang Wuyou climbed up with great pain and looked at Tan'er with resentment.

Tan Er blew on her little fist: "What's going on?"

"Nothing."

He doesn't bother with a little girl.

He sat back on the stone bench and told the news he had found out.

"This jade pendant belongs to the Qin Palace. Each of His Majesty's sons has one. However, in the year before Lu Yuan was born, only two of them left the imperial city. One was the two-year-old Prince Ming, and the other was the eighteen-year-old Prince Jin. Prince Jin is His Majesty's eldest son."

Meng Qianqian asked with a smile: "Wuyou knows that I am investigating Lu Yuan's background?"

Shang Wuyou snorted: "I'm not a fool."

Meng Qianqian smiled.

Wuyou was slowly approaching her, perhaps he himself did not realize it.

"Is the King of Jin a good man? Is he powerful? Is he good at martial arts?"

Tan'er asked three questions in a row.

Fortunately, Shang Wuyou conducted a comprehensive investigation: "Prince Jin is the eldest son, who is both civil and military, and is the son most like Your Majesty, but he is too arbitrary. If it weren't for the sudden appearance of a royal grandson, he should be Your Majesty's successor."

Tan Er sat down, holding her chin with both hands: "It sounds good!"

Meng Qianqian thought about it and decided to tell Liu Qingyun the news she had heard first.

Liu Qingyun slept until she woke up naturally.

The falcon is on the windowsill, almost waiting for the sculpture.

I have seen people training eagles, but I have never seen one trained like this.

For the sake of three pieces of jerky, Falcon endured it.

The falcon stretched out its claws with humiliation.

Liu Qingyun took off the note tied to it and read it thoughtfully: "King Jin?"

What a coincidence.

Prince Jin came to the palace today, and the three brothers had a small gathering.

After learning the news, Liu Qingyun hesitated for a long time, but decided to go and take a look.

If the man she slept with at that time was really the Prince of Jin, then her son would have a backer in Daliang.

The little maid serving her now is called Xier. She has a simple mind, otherwise she would not have been tricked by her.

"take me."

"Yes, ma'am."

Xier took Liu Qingyun to the pavilion where the three brothers were gathering.

She hid behind the rockery furtively: "Who is the King of Jin?"

Xier pointed at the man opposite Lu Zhaoyan and said, "The man next to him is King Ming, but Madam, why are we being so sneaky?"

"because……"

Liu Qingyun's eyes flashed, "Because I can't let your Highness find out that I'm peeking at him."

"I understand, Madam is shy."

"Just say so."

Liu Qingyun stretched her neck to take a look at what the man she had slept with for the whole night looked like, but was caught red-handed by Lu Zhaoyan.

After thinking about it, she took a detour and quietly climbed up a big tree.

She had just pushed aside the branches.

click!

The branch is broken!

She fell down with her arms and legs spread out, into the pavilion, and landed on the ground in a very ungraceful manner in front of the three men.

Three people: "..."

Prince Jin was the first to react, raising his knife cautiously.

Lu Zhaoyan hurriedly said: "Brother, we are one of us."

Prince Jin stopped his move.

Liu Qingyun cleared her throat and quickly put on her veil the moment she stood up.

It was a dark and windy night, so he probably didn't see her face clearly, but she felt guilty.

Lu Zhaoyan winked at the servant in the pavilion.

The servant poured Liu Qingyun a cup of tea.

Liu Qingyun sat down next to Lu Zhaoyan, and happened to be face to face with King Jin.

Prince Ming already knew that another woman had come to his mansion, and that she was the mother of that bad boy.

There's something good to watch now.

He opened his folding fan and said with a smile, "This lady must be my other sister-in-law, right? My sister-in-law likes to climb trees, right?"

Liu Qingyun said confidently: "Why? Can't climb?"

King Jin frowned.

It was not because Liu Qingyun climbed the tree to eavesdrop, but because the other party was staring at him at this moment.

He was looked at incomprehensibly.

Liu Qingyun raised her hand, blocking half of her vision, and only looked at King Jin's forehead and eyebrows.

Don't say it, really don't say it.

It's a bit similar.

Seeing that she kept staring at Prince Jin, Lu Zhaoyan's face darkened.

Ming Wang waved his folding fan and leaned back.

This is... there is something fishy going on.

Lu Zhaoyan spoke up: "Brother, I know what you said, and I will do my best to do it. Lao Liu, didn't you say you wanted to visit Pingting?"

"Did I?"

King Ming was stunned, looked at Lu Zhaoyan, and waved his folding fan wildly, saying, "Oh, I have it."

Lu Pingting is the daughter of Prince Jin, born to the Princess of Jin.

King Ming said to King Jin, "Brother, I will go to your house and have a seat for you!"

Prince Jin hummed, then stood up and left with Prince Ming.

Everyone left the pavilion, looked back, and met Liu Qingyun's gaze.

Liu Qingyun didn't feel guilty about being caught, and just looked at him straight.

Prince Jin: “…”

The King of Jin and the King of Ming went far away.

Liu Qingyun started out by sitting and watching, then stood up and walked to the entrance of the pavilion to watch.

Lu Zhaoyan was furious: "Do you want to go to Prince Jin's Mansion to see it?"

Liu Qingyun asked: "Is it okay?"

Lu Zhaoyan: “…”

"Let me take another look."

Liu Qingyun walked down the stairs quickly.

Lu Zhaoyan almost vomited blood.

Liu Qingyun chased Prince Jin to the gate of the Prince's Mansion and watched him and Prince Ming get on the carriage.

Ming Wang asked, "Brother, do you know my second sister-in-law?"

Prince Jin said sternly, "Don't talk nonsense. How could I know my second brother's woman? If this gets to my father's ears, do you want to kill me or yourself?"

Ming Wang shut up.

"Like... but not that much like..."

"The eyebrows are similar, the forehead is similar, but the eyes... the look in their eyes is different."

"The body shape... doesn't look like it."

"The way you walk... doesn't look like that!"

Liu Qingyun returned to the yard muttering to himself.

She changed into clean clothes, lay down on the bed, hugged the pillow and looked up at the sky: "Is it him?"

Bang Chi, Bang Chi.

There were strange noises coming from the closet.

Liu Qingyun frowned, walked over, opened the cabinet door, and caught a falcon that was eating a beggar's chicken.

The beggar's chicken was made for her by the kitchen.

She went to peek at the man, but was intercepted by the falcon.

The falcon also knew to take food from the cupboard to avoid being discovered by servants passing by.

"Are you tired of living?"

Liu Qingyun grabbed the falcon's wings and lifted him up.

The falcon's claws tightly grasped the cabinet and refused to admit capture.

Clang!

A secret compartment was caught by the falcon.

Something fell into the cupboard.

Liu Qingyun bent down and picked it up.

It was discovered to be an old silver mask with traces of welding on the upper right corner.

"Isn't this Ayan's mask?"

Her memory was brought back to many years ago when she first traveled around the world and met a mute boy with a disfigured face in Miaojiang.

He was wearing this mask at the time.

Once he blocked a knife for her and almost had his eyes blinded.

The mask was broken at that time, so she found a shop and welded the mask together by herself.

She said she would protect him forever and never let anyone bully him again.

But then, she lost him.

She thought she would never see him again in this life.

"Xi'er!"

"Madam, you call me a servant?"

Xier ran into the house panting.

Liu Qingyun asked excitedly: "Whose house was this originally?"

Xier said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Liu Qingyun smiled and said, "I mean, who originally lived in this room?"

Of course she knew that the entire Prince’s Mansion belonged to the Prince.

Xier answered seriously: "Your Highness the Crown Prince."

Liu Qingyun's smile faded and he asked doubtfully, "Isn't this my son's house?"

Xier said, "Master Linyuan also lives here. He is afraid that someone will harm him, so he must sleep and eat with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Liu Qingyun was stunned and asked, "Besides the prince and my son, has anyone else lived in this room?"

Xier shook her head: "No, not even the prince has lived here, and the lady of the Rose Courtyard has never stayed here."

Who cares whether the mother and son stayed overnight?

If this room belongs to Lu Zhaoyan, doesn't that mean the person I met that year——

"Your Highness!"

Xier bowed to Lu Zhaoyan.

Lu Zhaoyan stepped in.

The room was a bit messy, with a half-eaten chicken, an eagle that was sneaking away in a normal manner, and a mask that was being held tightly by Liu Qingyun.

A complicated look flashed across Lu Zhaoyan's eyes: "You step back first."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Xier retreated obediently.

Liu Qingyun stared at Lu Zhaoyan without blinking: "Where did this mask come from? What did you do to the owner of the mask?"

Lu Zhaoyan took a deep breath and said slowly: "The mask is mine."

Liu Qingyun said coldly: "You are talking nonsense! The mask belongs to A Yan!"

Lu Zhaoyan mustered up his courage and said, "Xiaobai, I am Ayan."

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