When Zhao Hongrun brought Zongwei Mu Qing and others back to Wenzhao Pavilion in the palace, it was already around Si Shi.
At this time, Mi Jiang had already gotten up and was sitting in the front hall drinking tea as usual. When she saw Zhao Hongrun walking in from the outside, a look of surprise flashed in her eyes.
Because anyone who knows Zhao Hongrun's work and rest habits knows that His Highness Prince Su rarely gets up before Si hour.
Stayed all night?
Mi Jiang looked at Zhao Hongrun silently.
Zhao Hongrun also noticed Mi Jiang sitting in the hall and her eyes that were obviously full of doubts.
For some reason, Zhao Hongrun's heartbeat accelerated slightly. Although it sounded ridiculous, he did feel a faint sense of guilt as if his husband had betrayed his wife.
"Are you up?" Zhao Hongrun greeted with a smile.
Mi Jiang, who was silent while holding the tea cup, looked deeply at Zhao Hongrun for a few times, and suddenly asked: "You didn't come home all night last night, right?...Where were you?"
At this time, Zhao Hongrun had already thought of his words, shrugged and said: "I was too busy yesterday, so I just spent the night at the Smelting Bureau."
"Oh." Mi Jiang nodded, seeming to believe it.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun breathed a sigh of relief and was about to walk back to his bedroom quickly, but for some reason, he stopped again in the middle, looked back at Mi Jiang and asked: "By the way, you have been here all day, don't you feel bored?"
?I know you actually don’t like living within high walls... If you feel bored and want to wander around the city, I can ask Shen Yu and the others to prepare a pass token for you. Anyway, the token for Prince Su’s Mansion should be almost ready.
, just take a trip to the clan mansion."
"..." Mi Jiang, who was drinking tea, raised her head and glanced at Zhao Hongrun. A bit of doubt gradually appeared in her eyes. She looked Zhao Hongrun up and down, frowned and said, "You... seem a little bit out of sorts today."
Satisfied."
"What?" Zhao Hongrun was stunned when he heard this, and looked at Mi Jiang inexplicably.
Mi Jiang put down the tea cup in his hand and said calmly: "On weekdays, if you come in and out of Wenzhao Pavilion, even if I am sitting here, you will probably pretend that you haven't seen me..."
Zhao Hongrun opened his mouth, somewhat speechless.
After all, just as Mi Jiang said, he used to ignore Mi Jiang and Mi Rui as sisters, purely treating them as freeloaders. Even if he saw Mi Jiang on weekdays, he would at most just nod and say hello. As for
For Mi Rui, it was as if it were air.
And asking Mi Jiang like he did just now is really not something he would do.
"No, not quite right..."
Mi Jiang stood up and walked to Zhao Hongrun. She circled around him and looked up and down at Zhao Hongrun carefully.
During this period, she lightly reminded: "Your heartbeat is getting faster and faster..."
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Zhao Hongrun took a deep breath and secretly calmed down.
He knew that the two sisters Mi Jiang and Mi Rui had extraordinary sharpness in vision, hearing and other senses, and he didn't know what it had to do with the profession of witch.
Suddenly, Mi Jiang stretched out her hand and grabbed Zhao Hongrun's sleeve. Before he could react, she took a step closer, lowered her head and buried herself close to his chest. She sniffed the clothes on Zhao Hongrun's chest with her nose.
In an instant, her face darkened.
Although she usually has an expressionless face, it cannot be otherwise. At this time, her face is much colder than usual.
"Were you at that woman named Su's place last night?"
What's going on with this tone of voice that sounds like a wife blaming her husband?
Zhao Hongrun muttered something in his heart, raised his hand and struggled away, and his sleeves were freed from Mi Jiang's pull. Immediately, he said nonchalantly without changing his expression: "No, I was at the Smelting Bureau last night."
"Really?" Mi Jiang glanced at Zhao Hongrun coldly, and then turned her eyes to Mu Qing and several other Zongwei behind Zhao Hongrun who looked a little confused. At the same time, she lowered her voice and said to Zhao Hongrun: "You should know, even if you and you
The clan guards want to conceal this matter, and I have many ways to get them to tell the truth."
Having said this, she looked at Zhao Hongrun again with cold eyes. The meaning is self-evident: we must do it from the truth!
Hearing what Mi Jiang said, Zhao Hongrun suddenly felt a little discouraged. He shrugged for a long time and said, "Okay, okay, I wasn't in the Smelting Bureau last night..."
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Hearing this, Mi Jiang's eyes filled with anger, and her eyes were as cold as knives.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun quickly took her hand and whispered: "Don't make any noise, we will talk in my room."
After that, he dismissed Mu Qing and several other clan guards, and took Mi Jiang straight to his bedchamber. After all, Mu Qing and others didn't know about the Green Gu.
Mi Jiang let Zhao Hongrun pull her to the latter's bedroom. At this time, she broke free from Zhao Hongrun's hand and asked expressionlessly: "Did you sleep with that woman?"
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Zhao Hongrun was a little confused by this abrupt statement.
Seeing this, Mi Jiang's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I should have eliminated this hidden danger long ago!"
After saying that, she turned around and left.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Hongrun was shocked. Of course he could guess what Mi Jiang wanted to do. He grabbed her hand and pulled her back. At the same time, he hurriedly explained: "Don't worry, don't worry, although the facts are just as you said.
Yes, but...you see there's nothing wrong with me, right?"
Hearing this, Mi Jiang was stunned for a moment, then observed Zhao Hongrun carefully. What puzzled her was that Zhao Hongrun's complexion was indeed good, and he didn't look weak at all.
"Stay still!"
After saying something coldly, Mi Jiang grabbed Zhao Hongrun's wrist with her left hand and waved it in front of Zhao Hongrun as if she was holding something with her right hand.
"Ah!" Zhao Hongrun whispered, because he just felt a stinging pain in his wrist, as if he had been pricked by something.
When he looked carefully, he discovered that a slender silver needle had appeared in Mi Jiang's hand, with a few traces of blood on the tip.
Under Zhao Hongrun's inexplicable gaze, Mi Jiang walked towards the window, faced the sunlight coming in from the window, and carefully examined the blood-stained silver needle. After a long time, she breathed out with relief: "Your blood is not poisonous."
At this point, she turned to look at Zhao Hongrun and said strangely: "Did you really have sex with that woman named Su?...I mean, do you know what to do?"
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Zhao Hongrun rolled his eyes and said angrily: "I know what you want to say... I can guarantee that I did have sex with Miss Su last night, in the true sense!"
Mi Jiang blushed slightly when Zhao Hongrun stared at her, and turned her head away unnaturally. She muttered: "This is strange, it shouldn't be...according to the rumors, you should have died from the poison at this moment."
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"But I'm still fine." Zhao Hongrun shrugged and joked: "I'm very doubtful now. Your so-called green Gu is just a toy to scare people."
"..." Mi Jiang sat at the table with her chin in her hand, not rushing to a conclusion, as if she was thinking about something for a long time. She asked: "What about the rest? Do you feel any discomfort?"
Zhao Hongrun shrugged, indicating to the other party that everything felt normal now.
Looking at his appearance, Mi Jiang was obviously a little puzzled, and she didn't know what she was muttering as she sat there.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun sat down opposite her and asked curiously: "You witches, haven't similar things happened in the past?"
Mi Jiang hesitated for a moment and said calmly: "The inheritance of Zhurong Ruins has now declined. The village where my sister and I lived back then had only a few dozen witches..."
Perhaps because she gradually got to know Zhao Hongrun, Mi Jiang finally revealed some village news to him.
In her description, it was a small village that seemed to be isolated from the world. There were only dozens of women of various ages living in the village, and these women were all witches from Zhurong Ruins. To put it more simply, they were serving Chu.
The witch of Zhurong, the god of fire, one of the greatest gods in China.
"In the village, are they all women? Are they all witches?" Zhao Hongrun asked in confusion: "There is no one who is a man?"
Mi Jiang glanced at Zhao Hongrun and said matter-of-factly: "Men have an impure body. How can they serve the gods?"
Impure body...
Zhao Hongrun's eyes twitched a few times and he said angrily: "Since there are no men, how do you witches reproduce? Didn't you say there are many young girls there?"
Mi Jiang obviously understood and glanced at him. He said coldly: "They are orphans adopted by the old woman. In the land of Baqian, there are countless baby girls who have lost their parents and are helpless... When they grow up,
Baby girls who are gifted will be left in the village, and those who are not gifted will leave."
"Understood." Zhao Hongrun nodded. He roughly understood what kind of existence the village Mi Jiang mentioned was.
"Then, the miko in the village has never had anything like that happen with another man...hasn't that happened?"
"That's forbidden." Mi Jiang's eyes became a little sad when he heard this. After looking at Zhao Hongrun, he said expressionlessly: "If I take you back to the village, you will be killed, and I will be tied to the firewood."
Burned to death on a salary, in front of all the witches in the village... I say this, do you understand?"
"Why?" Zhao Hongrun was a little confused.
"Because the union between a witch and an ordinary man has never been spared. Therefore, the previous generations, or the witches of the previous generations, have set new rules and must not have anything to do with men in the world..." said
Here, Mi Jiang raised his head and glanced at Zhao Hongrun, and said calmly: "Originally, after solving Mr. Xiong Tuo's trouble, my sister and I were ready to return to the village. But now, thanks to you, I can't go back."
"It's none of my business? Blame it on your stupid sister!" Zhao Hongrun rolled his eyes angrily.
Maybe Mijiang also felt that Zhao Hongrun was not to blame for this incident, so she didn't say anything more. She just told Zhao Hongrun: "Don't take chances and think that the green poison is just a scam to scare people. You don't want to know how to feed green poison."
How many kinds of poisons are used in Gu... Maybe those rumors are indeed exaggerated and are not as scary as what the ancestors said orally, but one thing you have to remember is that it exists and has always been here."
Finally, she stretched out her finger and gently poked Zhao Hongrun's heart.
After that, she gently patted Zhao Hongrun's chest again, turned around and left.
Staring blankly at Mi Jiang's leaving figure, the good mood in Zhao Hongrun's heart that he had originally thought was useless suddenly sank to the bottom.
"Shen Yu, Shen Yu?"
"Your Majesty is in your humble position. What are your orders?"
"Go to the Zongfu in person and bring over some books about Ba and Qian... I have already said hello to the second uncle, and the library of the Zongfu will let you go."