Xu Yiyuan's body has not recovered yet, and is still skinny and bones, breaking at the slightest movement.
He stretched out his limbs on the bed and moved around like a giant spider.
Yan Yan stepped forward and knocked him over.
Xu Yiyuan's eyes were dull and dull, but fortunately there was no evil spirit underneath him sucking away his yang energy.
"Sapphire."
"Come on, come on, he is suffering from hysteria just like Shuangmao."
How Qingyu saved Shuangmao yesterday, this is how she saves Xu Yiyuan now.
Yan Yan stood in front of the scroll.
They asked Xiao Cui to cover the scroll first, but now the scroll is still exposed.
The woman on the scroll is vivid and her half-concealed eyes seem to be looking down at them.
A pillow towel fell from the chair in front of me.
Yan Yan picked up the pillow towel and hung the scroll again.
"Didn't you steal the scroll yesterday?" Shen Beizhu approached Yan Yan and asked in a low voice.
"So nothing happened to Xu Yiyuan last night." Yan Yan said.
The picture scroll on her body can only be an ordinary picture scroll. If she acts recklessly, Yan Yan doesn't mind destroying it directly.
Only when Xu Yiyuan was put back on the bed did he wake up from his hysteria.
A few people were afraid that he would make a fuss if they told him what happened, so they just said that he had a nightmare, and the maid called them over because they were worried that something would happen to him.
"Did you take off the pillow cover on the scroll?" Yan Yan asked.
Xu Yiyuan nodded, "I don't think it looks good to hang a pillow towel."
"Don't take it off. Hang it up for a few days. When we leave, you can hang it up as you want."
When leaving, Xiaocui returned to the yard.
Yan Yan once again told her not to take off the pillow cover from the scroll.
Xiaocui nodded obediently.
Back at the waterside pavilion, Shen Beizhu looked absent-minded even when he sat down.
Why does he always feel that Yan Yan and Qing Yu's behavior are both wrong?
"You guys go to sleep, I'll keep watch." Yan Yan said, jumped to the window sill and sat down.
She didn't want to fall asleep again.
He covered Shen Beizhu with his cloak and had a peaceful night.
Just after breakfast the next day, Shen Beizhu told Qingwang that there was news about Liu Ziyan.
It's just that they can't talk about it in the prime minister's house.
Yan Yao and Qing Yu have been staying with Shen Beizhu. I really don't know how Shen Beizhu and Shuang Mao passed the news.
Yan Yan excitedly called this the imperial strategy.
When she saw Qingwang again, she felt more and more that this boy was not simple, but much better than Shen Beizhu's previous boy.
While Qingwang was talking about something, Yan Yan stared at him with such intense eyes that sweat broke out on his back.
"Liu Ziyan has no parents, and there is no so-called return home. He should be from the capital. And..." Qingwang raised his eyes and glanced at Shen Beizhu.
"If you have anything to say, just say it. There are no outsiders here."
"The one who picked up Liu Ziyan from Manchun Tower." Qingwang gritted his teeth, "It's the eldest lady."
…
The three of them were each more silent than the other.
Qingyu thought that he should have avoided Qingwang when he saw him in trouble, but now that he heard about it, he didn't know if he would be silenced.
Only then did Yan Yan figure out that Shen Beizhu had a second sister named Shen Nanhua, and he had never heard of his eldest sister.
Shen Beizhu felt suddenly enlightened.
His eldest sister, Shen Xiqin, often went to Huajie and Liuxiang because of a man. When her father found out, she was banned for a full year.
He was still young at that time, but now I think that man must be Liu Ziyan.
"Liu Ziyan came out of the palace and received a letter from the eldest lady. When his subordinates investigated, the eldest lady found out about it. She asked the young master to go find her." Qingwang lowered his head and said.
He originally used the secret guards of Prince Shen's Mansion, and he didn't know that this matter was related to the eldest lady, so he didn't hide it.
"I haven't heard of your eldest sister yet."
"Married, married to an imperial merchant."
Yan Yan raised his eyebrows and Qingyu pursed her lips.
——Since you are married, can you still take Liu Ziyan away?
"You are the crown prince, so shouldn't your eldest lady be the princess?" Yan Yan was curious.
For the first time, Qingyu was helpless with Yan Yu.
Shouldn't we first ask about the relationship between the eldest lady and Liu Ziyan?
"The position of Crown Prince and Princess depends on the Emperor's decree. The eldest sister and the second sister have done nothing, and the Emperor has no reason to reward them."
"oh."
Then they went all the way to Shen Xiqin's husband's house, and Yan Yan didn't ask any more questions about the relationship between the two of them and Liu Ziyan.
"Sister."
The three of them came to Shen Xiqin's house. When they saw them, Shen Xiqin got up and walked towards them.
Shen Beizhu was confused.
In the past, when they met, the eldest sister never stood up to greet her.
Shen Xiqin directly crossed Shen Beizhu and stood in front of Yan Yan.
"Sister, she is..."
Shen Xiqin took Yan Yan's hand and led her to sit on a chair in the hall.
"I heard from my grandfather that you like sweet and spicy food, why don't you eat while you talk?"
Shen Xiqin's daughter's family was much more attentive, and the food on the table was something Yan Yan had never seen before in the capital.
But the taste was so good that Yan Yan forgot to ask about Liu Ziyan for a moment.
Shen Xiqin looked at Yan Yan eating with fondness on her face.
Shen Beizhu and Qingyu were left alone, feeling helpless.
"Sister."
"Say." Shen Xiqin looked at Shen Beizhu, the smile on his face disappeared.
A sister always has a special bloodline suppression towards her brother.
Shen Beizhu called out three times before Shen Xiqin paid attention to him.
"Liu Ziyan's matter..."
"He came to me, told me about a secret play, and then left. I don't know where he went." Shen Xiqin said, "However, he may never come back. .”
"What does it mean?"
"He said he wouldn't survive the New Year."
"That means he is dead now, right?" Yan Yan asked.
It was difficult for her to find the living people, and the whereabouts of the dead were just a matter of flipping through the Book of Yin and Yang.
Shen Xiqin nodded.
"Who is the woman in the secret picture?"
"Third brother, do you know the oiran Lian Niang who was Man Chun Lou twenty years ago?"
Shen Beizhu took a deep breath, "Concubine Lian?! That painting is Concubine Lian!"
Yan Yan was chewing the cake, and Qingyu's back broke out in cold sweat again.
Even if she knew the secret of the young lady of Prince Shen's mansion, she actually heard about it in the palace.
Twenty years ago, it was the year that the current emperor came to power.
The emperor came to the throne by usurping the throne from the late emperor. Before the emperor usurped the throne, the late emperor happened to bring an oiran from Manchun Tower into his harem.
It was also this incident that prevented the emperor's usurpation from being discussed by the people.
The late emperor was not considered a mediocre emperor, nor could he be considered a Ming emperor. At that time, the affairs of the barbarian frontier aroused much discussion in the world.
Later, despite the objections of the ministers, he admitted a brothel girl into the harem, causing the late emperor to lose his prestige in the court.
At that time, Concubine Lian was even called the Demon Concubine.
After the new emperor ascended the throne, Concubine Lian was also sentenced to death.
"Liu Ziyan is only twenty years old, how could he know about Concubine Lian?"
Shen Xiqin took a sip of tea and remained silent.
"Then it's Xu Yiyuanhuan. Okay, could it be Concubine Lian?" Shen Beizhu said in shock.
Yan Yan put down the cake in his hand and said unpredictablely, "We'll find out who the ghost in the painting is tonight."