Then, she took the candlestick from the table and threw it on the ground filled with gauze tents.
Soon, the fire started to burn, and her face turned extremely red. As the fire grew stronger, other objects in the room also started to burn. Then she turned around and walked out slowly.
However, when Lingye finally dealt with Xue Yingyue, he returned to the main courtyard and wanted to leave through the secret passage, but found that his master had returned.
She was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly greeted him.
"Prince, Princess, why are you back at this time?"
Don't blame her for not caring about basic etiquette. She was really too surprised and didn't expect that the master and mistress would come back at this time.
She turned her head, glanced at the already blazing backyard, and uncontrollably stretched out her tongue to lick her lips.
She originally thought that the master would not come back so soon, but she solved Xue Yingyue tonight, and no one else would suspect the master. At most, it was rumored that the people in Xue Yingyue's yard were careless, leading to a leak and burning him to death.
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But now, the master has returned with his mistress, and this matter seems a bit unclear.
“What’s going on in the backyard?”
Qian Jiyun asked Lingye with a stern look on her face.
"Well."
Lingye choked.
"Today, someone from the palace came to send a message, hoping that the old lady's old illness would relapse and she would not be able to recover from it, so... I took it upon myself to give her a solution."
An Jiuyue raised her eyebrows, saying that it was a coincidence. The old lady died just after they arrived.
"It's my subordinate's fault. Please punish me, Master."
Lingye knew that he had done something bad with good intentions, so he knelt down towards his master.
"Get up."
Qian Jiyun didn't mean to blame her and let her get up.
Xue Yingyue, even if he comes back, he will not let her live for another moment and a half. It will be easier for her to die like this, but it will also save a lot of trouble.
"Your mission has been completed, please leave through the secret passage."
"Yes, Master."
Lingye accepted the order, stood up and left.
"What a coincidence."
After they left, An Jiuyue raised her head and smiled at him and said.
"Sending you to rest."
Qian Jiyun didn't want to talk about the woman Xue Yingyue, so she took An Jiuyue back to the backyard.
Although many of the servants in the Prince's Palace rushed to put out the fire, the servants in Qiongzhiyuan were still there. When their master and mistress came back, they cooked as they should and waited on them as they should.
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Early the next morning, before the morning court had even started, the old emperor heard that the palace of Zhanyun County Prince had been burned down.
"What did you say? Burned to death?"
Looking at the leader of the secret guards, the old emperor felt that smoke was coming out of his head.
He felt that Xue Yingyue should die, but this was not the way to die. She was Qian Jiyun's nominal mother. If she looked like this, she would be killed.
If the matter were found to be on his side, wouldn't it give Qian Jiyun an opportunity to rebel openly?
"What do you do for food? What I said was that her old disease relapsed and she couldn't afford it anymore. What's happening now? How can someone relapse and die so quickly?"
When the leader of the secret guard heard the old emperor's question, he immediately knelt down.
From the moment he heard the news, he knew something was wrong, but now that the matter had come to this, there was no other way, and it was impossible to remedy the situation.
"It's my fault. Please punish me, Your Majesty."
Hearing this, the old emperor secretly grinded his teeth.
