I'm not a fortune teller.

Chapter 101 Something else.
"I saw it. That thing back then!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Zhang Rui's whole body reacted for some reason, and a creepy feeling surged into his heart. He instantly realized that this body of his definitely remembered what Cui Ergou said!
"What is that?" Lu Chengfeng looked over curiously.

He must have remembered the overpass that the other party mentioned. It was the place where Hong Lie's beloved daughter, Princess Jialin, died tragically. The Dali Temple had never had any clue about this case, and everyone attributed the murderer to the Tanhua case. This time it was confirmed that the owner of the Painting Market was the murderer of the Tanhua case, and many people conceded that Princess Jialin should have been killed by the owner of the Painting Market.

But in fact, if you analyze it, you will find that there is a problem, because the other party has no motive.

If there was someone else who killed the county lady, what was his purpose? Why was it so coincidentally related to the painting market?

"Speak slowly." Zhang Rui saw that the other party was obviously frightened, and quickly comforted him: "It's okay, there is nothing here that can hurt you."

Cui Yan felt relieved after hearing this. He took a few deep breaths and calmed down a little. He whispered, "Back then, we were drunk on the bridge and almost lost consciousness. But in the middle of the night, I was actually awake for a while."

"I actually know. The county lady came to the bridge to find me and talked to me a lot."

"I talked a lot with you?" Zhang Rui was a little surprised: "Did that happen?"

"You should have been drunk to death at that time." Cui Yan smiled bitterly and said, "In fact, it would be great if I was drunk to death like you, but I didn't."

His eyes were blurry as he recalled the scene from three years ago that he least wanted to recall.

Jialin County Lady was not extremely beautiful, but she was pretty and well-behaved. At first glance, she looked like a well-protected girl. She didn't dare to look at me directly when she met me several times, but only dared to secretly glance at me.
In fact, deep down in his heart, he really likes this type of thing.

But he didn't dare to contact her. One reason was that the other party's identity was very different from his own, and the other was Princess Yueyao.

It is said that there was a lady from a noble family who just spoke a few words to him. The next day, she was found naked and died tragically in the slums of the northern district. Not only was she insulted by many homeless people, but even her tongue was pulled out!

An eunuch had warned him the night before, and the lady would die miserably the next day. He knew then that the seemingly gentle Princess Yueyao was actually a lunatic!
Although Princess Jialin was of noble status, she could not guarantee that the other party would not take action.

So he decisively stayed away from any woman who approached him, including the cute girl who had the courage to approach him.

That night the girl seemed to muster up her greatest courage and talked a lot to herself on the overpass while pretending to be drunk.

She said that she liked her appearance and her kindness, but she also knew that there was no fate between them. She came here today to say goodbye. For the first time in her life, she felt her heart was beating fast. If she did nothing, she felt that she would have some regrets in her life. But she was not as free and easy as her mother. She could marry whoever she wanted and was not sure whether the other person liked her or not.

She wanted to hear herself say something. If the person she liked had also liked her, then she would learn from her cool mother and would even dare to compete with the princess for a man.

But if she has no interest in me at all, then I will never bother her again. I just hope that she can reply to me seriously with just one sentence.

From childhood to adulthood, Cui Yan had never had a girl say such words to him. Ever since he acquired extraordinary beauty, all the women he met had a strong possessiveness towards him and never asked him if he was attracted to them, as if it was natural for them to have him.

Only this one, despite her noble status, is willing to treat others equally, and cares more about whether he is also attracted to her.

At that moment, he also felt a little courage. Meeting such a woman was the luckiest thing in his life. Even though their identities were very different, at that moment, he also felt a desire to fight for her.

But as soon as I opened my eyes, that courage disappeared without a trace.
"do you like her?"

That might be the most terrifying scene I have ever encountered in my life.
"what happened?"

Inside the sedan, Zhang Rui asked cautiously.

Cui Yan covered his head, as if he had lost all his strength due to the torture of the scene, but at this moment he still mustered up the courage to speak out.

"That thing pulled out the county lady's tongue and blinded her right in front of me, and smashed her flower-like face with one punch after another, but it let her live and let me watch."

Zhang Rui got goosebumps all over his body when he heard this, but Lu Chengfeng beside him didn't care.

Evil spirits love to play with people's hearts. The most terrifying scene in the world is to see the person you cherish most die in the most tragic way before your eyes. He has seen this kind of thing many times. He was just curious why Zhang Rui allowed such a thing to happen when he was clearly by his side.

With his abilities, didn't he have any ability to resist at that time?
If so, what kind of existence is evil?
"You just said that you saw her in the palace?" Zhang Rui suppressed the discomfort in his heart and asked in a low voice.

When I was on the bridge, I was probably awake. Otherwise, my body wouldn't have reacted so strongly to the other person's words. I'm afraid that I saw the same horrible scene as Cui Yan.

But why didn't I do anything?

Wasn't the AI-hosted me very brave at that time? I dared to make the queen pregnant in the palace with the function of the pen. Why didn't I dare to do anything here?
"I saw it!" Cui Yan nodded: "I saw it when I came out of the palace!"

"You came out of the palace?" Lu Chengfeng's eyelids jumped. Why did this guy come out of the palace?

"That's not important." Zhang Rui quickly changed the subject and asked about the real matter: "Where did you see it? Who did you see it?"

"I don't know who it is." Cui Yan whispered, "I only know that woman. She is wearing palace clothes and has changed her appearance, but I can guarantee that it is her. I will never forget those cold and harmless eyes. It is her!"

"Clothes in the palace? Women?" Lu Chengfeng frowned. "Painting spirits? It should be possible. The four evil spirits that have entered the palace will not care. The owner of the painting market does have the ability to plant many painting spirits in the palace."

"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Zhang Rui shook his head.

The thing Cui Yan encountered was related to the Painting Spirit, but it was probably not a Painting Spirit. Its degree of danger was probably no less than that of the Master of the Painting Spirit.

The county princess is a simple person, but Hong Lie and the princess are not. They both had good hands in place with their precious daughters, but they were slowly tortured to death by that thing on the bridge.

He had been in the Dali Temple before, and learned some general information about the case from Shen Yuan. The people that Hong Lie used to protect his daughter were not simple. There were two top-notch first-class warriors who were both capable of local martial arts priests, and there was also an old sorcerer from a secluded family who was as capable as Tian Ye and was a staff member in Hong Lie's mansion.

But when the incident happened, the three of them were outside the bridge and were completely unaware that the county lady had already died tragically.

This was completely inconsistent with what Cui Yan was saying now, because that thing had tortured the county lady to death, and the three people outside the bridge were all top-tier masters, but they had no idea? And they were in such a wide field of vision on the overpass.

It doesn't look right anyway.
Either those three people were lying, or the evil spirit had some special means to forcibly blind those three people.
It seems that I have to carefully examine the painting spirit after I return.

If that thing is thinking about Cui Yan, I must find out what it is.——
"Your Highness, I'm sorry to have troubled you these past few days." Outside the Shen Mansion, Shen Yuan asked the third prince Li Yu to get off the sedan chair, and he respectfully performed the etiquette of a subject.

"Master Shen is really good at choosing." Li Yu yawned. "Even if you want to sit on the sidelines and watch, there's no need to choose me, right? There are so many impossible choices among my brothers. For example, you can learn from Master Zhang and choose a cub, right?"

"That was indeed my original plan." Shen Yuan invited Li Yu into the mansion and whispered, "Your Highness is of noble status and is not a quiet person. Choosing a young prince will indeed save you a lot of trouble."

"Oh?" Li Yu raised his eyebrows: "You still know that I am a troublesome person? Then why do you choose me?"

"The Third Prince is a capable person. If something really happens, you have the Qin family's support and the protection of a half-step master. You might be a good partner at a critical moment."

"Lord Shen actually wants to cooperate with me?" Li Yu looked at him with amusement: "Not many people from noble families have such an idea."

"Cooperation only considers the pros and cons. No one has cooperated with Your Highness before simply because the benefits were not enough."

"I see." Li Yu put away his smile after hearing this: "Sir Shen is indeed a pragmatic person, but from your tone, I think there must be other reasons, right?"

"Yes"

"Can you tell me about it?"

Shen Yuan nodded and said, "I was just about to ask Your Highness about the tragic death of Hong Lie's daughter, Princess Jialin."

"What does that matter have to do with me?" Li Yu frowned immediately.

But Shen Yuan, who had been observing Li Yu, still caught a glimpse of unnaturalness deep in the other's eyes.

"Your Highness did stay away from the place where the county lady died tragically, but I recently found out that Lord Qin Fang went all the way from the palace to that place, and..." Shen Yuan lowered his voice and said, "Your Highness, can you explain why the record of Lord Qin Fang leaving the palace was destroyed, and who was the maid who left the palace with Lord Qin Fang?"

(End of this chapter)