Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 276: Let's Tell a Fortune
Several maids and servants' faces changed drastically when they heard this, and they said angrily: "You, you want to kill people to silence them!"

"You still want to speak rudely?" Xiao Hong snorted coldly and snapped his fingers several times, breaking all their jaws.

"What are you standing there for?!" Xiao Hong glanced at the servant at the door.

Seeing how ruthless he was, how could the servants dare to hesitate? They rushed in and dragged the maids and servants out and beat them to death.

Xiao Hong said to the others who were trembling, "You guys go out first. Yu Yao and I will stay with the third sister-in-law for a while."

After a pause, he said to his second niece, "Yuwan, you go out first."

The maid quickly helped Xiao Yuwan, who was sobbing, down.

When there was no one else in the room except the baby, Xiao Hong took out a dead jade bottle with a gray color.

"What else do you want to do?" Xiao Yuyao asked puzzled.

"Even though a person dies, his soul still exists. Aren't you afraid that your mother's ghost will come back to find you?" Xiao Hong said in a deep voice.

"Of course I'm afraid." Xiao Yuyao shuddered. "Quickly destroy her soul."

"Yeah." Xiao Hong nodded, pulled out the cork, and shouted, "Collect!"

Then he put Xi Hui's soul into the soul-destroying bottle and turned it into invisible...

~~
Thousand miles on the ship.

The passengers boarded the ship one after another, but there was no sign of Ren Yuan, Xiao Yuhuan and Nangong.

"Have they disembarked?" Chen Lingzhi asked.

"Probably not. I haven't seen Yuan all day today, and Yao is very worried." Chen Baxian shook his head and said, "I heard from the fifth owner that Sister Nan also slept all day and didn't wake up until dark."

"Do you know where the ship owner and his men went?" Yang Zhong asked Xiao Heizi.

"Answer. The ship owner went ashore in violation of regulations." Xiao Heizi expressed his anger in a calm tone.

"Protest. Ship owners cannot take the lead in violating regulations."

"How long have they been gone?" Chen Lingzhi asked in a deep voice.

"Answer, five days and five nights." The little black man replied: "Consider it, sail away and leave them on the shore."

Before he finished speaking, the fire in its eye sockets suddenly lit up, and it said in that damn broadcasting voice: "Good news, the owner is back!"

After saying that, he happily drove the boat to the shore to pick up the ship owner.

~~
The passengers watched in amazement as Ren Yuan and Nangong jumped onto the boat together, the latter holding a tiny baby in her arms.

"Oh my god, what did you two do? Why did you bring back a child?" Chen Baxian asked on behalf of everyone.

"It's not someone else, it's Princess Yongkang." Ren Yuan smiled bitterly.

"Ah?" Everyone's jaw dropped in shock. The little monk asked in astonishment, "How many people did your Highness the Princess save?"

"I didn't save anyone... Well, it was also to save people." Ren Yuan told everyone what he saw and heard in Princess Yongxing's 'dream of drunkenness and lust'.

“……”Everyone felt very sad after hearing this, and looked at the baby with sympathy.

Hearing that she would not be affected in reality, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Chen Lingzhi held Xiao Yuhuan and asked, "Will she remain in this state on the boat?"

“I’m afraid that’s the case.” Nangong sighed, “You’ve been on the ship for so many years, and you haven’t aged at all.”

"Yes." Everyone nodded.

"People don't age in dreams, so the princess will remain like this for a long time." Nangong said, "Unless we can find her own dream and replace her back to her original appearance."

Then he sighed and said, "But without the dream thread to guide me, I can't find her original dream." Everyone looked at Chen Lingzhi. "You two were on the same boat at the time."

"But we were not in the same dream, we just bumped into each other at the beach." Chen Lingzhi said helplessly, "I can't predict the events in dreams either."

"Well, it seems she has no choice but to do this for now." Chen Baxian stretched out his hand to tease the baby's chin, and was bitten hard by Xiao Yuhuan.

"Oh..." Chen Baxian's heart melted, and he smiled like an auntie: "I think this is good, the small one is also very cute."

The baby punched him in the face.

~~
The next morning, Nangong opened his eyes and saw the fifth dimension guarding his bed.

She stretched beautifully and asked, "How long have I slept?"

"You slept for one day and two nights." The Fifth Dimension said with a pair of dark circles under his eyes.

"Really?" Nangong was so happy that he almost cried. After more than three years, he finally had a good night's sleep.

"How could it be false?" The Fifth Dimension asked, "Just calculate how many days you have spent over there, and you will know how long it has been here, right?"

"Almost." Nangong nodded, looked at Diwuwei and said, "Have you been guarding here all this time?"

"I'm worried." The Fifth Dimension nodded and said, "Although I can't help much."

"You have already helped me the most." Nangong smiled charmingly, looking several years younger.

"How have I helped?" The fifth dimension was completely confused.

Nangong answered irrelevantly: "We have made great gains."

"Really? That's great." The Fifth Dimension also changed the subject and urged: "Tell me quickly, what did you find out?"

Nangong rolled his eyes and said unhappily, "Let Yuan speak."

"Okay." Diwu Wei shouted to the outside, "Call Captain Ren."

Ren Yuan came over quickly and told Diwu Wei what he had seen and heard in the 'Dream of Drunkenness and Debauchery'. Diwu Wei was deeply shocked after hearing it: "I thought Xiao Zhengde and Xiao Zhengze were outrageous enough, but I didn't expect that they were nothing compared to the eldest princess."

"What should we do now?" Nangong asked.

"This is a big deal, we need Chen Shuai to make the decision." Diwu Wei said, standing up and saying, "You two follow me."

So the three of them came to Zuyin Garden and reported the situation to Chen Qingzhi.

Chen Qingzhi's reaction was greater than the three had imagined. He sat at the chessboard in silence for a long time before he sighed and said, "The mystery from 28 years ago has finally been solved."

As he spoke, he slowly recalled, "At that time, the emperor had already started a rebellion and the situation was extremely precarious. When the tragic news of the queen's death came, he had no time to investigate in detail and believed what Xiao Hong and Xiao Yuyao said."

"Later, the army fought all the way to Jiankang City. After entering the city, they faced internal and external counterattacks and fought a desperate battle. Then he accepted the abdication and ascended the throne. It was two or three years later when the court was stabilized. The emperor was even less able to investigate the cause of the queen's death."

"Alas, the Queen is of noble birth, a heroine, and is very popular with her subjects, and is good at managing the household and finances. The Emperor's foundation for raising an army is inseparable from her great help."

"And she is the only one who can control the emperor. If she could live until now, many things would not have ended up like this." Chen Qingzhi paused and sighed, "I didn't expect such an outstanding person to be harmed by her own family. It's such a pity."

"So we must seek justice for the Queen." Ren Yuan said softly.

"The Queen has been very kind to me, so of course I must avenge her," Chen Qianzhi nodded.

"But what I saw in the dream cannot be used as real evidence, and we still cannot accuse Xiao Yuyao." The Fifth Dimension said worriedly: "Empress Xi has been in ruins for so many years, and those who knew about it have been silenced. We have no way to start."

"..." Chen Qingzhi seemed to be thinking about something, and after a while he slowly said, "Let's do a fortune telling first."

(End of this chapter)