Transmigrating into a female supporting role in a book

Before I figured out my future path, I asked Tianhe to help me one more time and bring the body of the mute slave back from the Meridian Gate.

But when I went there, it was too late, and the wooden frame where the body was originally hung was empty. I asked the people wandering around nearby and found out that the body was still there at dawn this morning, but now it is gone and they don’t know what happened.

Originally I didn't want to deal with government officials, so Tianhe went to ask the guard and learned that someone came to take away the body of the mute slave more than an hour ago. I couldn't help but ask who took it away and where they took it, but the other party refused to answer impatiently and simply drove us away with curses.

Tianhe protected me and took two steps back. When he wanted to say something, I pulled him back and whispered, "Forget it."

"Let's go ask somewhere else." When I pulled his sleeve and prepared to leave together, I was stopped by another guard at the city gate.

"Please stay, both of you." This man looked kinder than the one who spoke before.

Tianhe and I looked at each other, then turned back, wanting to hear what he was going to say.

"My brother was a little aggressive just now, please bear with me."

"It doesn't matter."

"The eunuch who took over earlier did not say how to deal with it, but according to the usual rules, it's basically the same, there are only a few places to go." He explained with an overly flattering smile.

I frowned slightly and was about to ask which eunuch came to pick up the body, but Tianhe spoke first, "Brother, do you know where they went? Please let me know." As he said that, he skillfully took out a piece of silver and handed it over.

"Criminal slaves are usually thrown into the mass grave behind Sanlipo in the east of the city. In this weather, it is estimated that all the bones will be gone in a few days. But if there are kind people who are willing to help collect and bury them, they should first be sent to the charity cemetery in Baiyalin, which is also in the east of the city."

"Thank you."

With these clues, my mood did not improve, but became even more silent.

"What's next?" Tianhe asked.

"Why would someone from the palace come to take the body?" I frowned, racking my brains but couldn't figure it out. Didn't Jiang Huan want to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys?

The dead body of the criminal slave was hung up for public display. Without official documents, how could it be taken away by ordinary people? But who in the palace could pay attention to the mute slave whose identity had been completely changed? And he could also get Jiang Huan's tacit approval.

After thinking about it, Sun Lingwei's name popped up in my mind. Apart from her, I can't think of anyone else in the world who would care about the mute slave. Although he himself said that he was no longer a member of the Sun family, the blood relationship cannot be severed. Maybe she paid money to collect the mute slave's body.

Tianhe watched me mumbling to myself and guessing for a long time, then slowly said, "Sun Lingwei has been taken into the harem by His Majesty, and she is no longer a female doctor. If you meet her in the palace, you should call her a beauty."

"When did it happen? Why have I never heard of it?"

"During the time when you went to Youzhou."

I'm not in the capital, so I haven't heard of it. That's normal, but he, like me, just returned to the capital, so he is much more informed than me. Even if he used to do intelligence gathering work for the Imperial Dragon Guard, it wouldn't be easy for him to use the resources of the Imperial Dragon Guard to get information from everywhere, unless he...

Tianhe saw that my gaze towards him was gradually becoming wary, and he smiled helplessly, "Isn't it too late for you to doubt my motives now?"

"Who are you anyway?" I asked in a very impolite tone.

"The Dragon Guards are naturally your Majesty's men." His answer was also very subtle.

"Then why did you take me with you to escape before? Aren't you afraid of being questioned by His Majesty?"

He laughed again, "I can still knock you out and send you back to the palace, but if you get the upper hand in front of His Majesty and make up a few bad things about me, I might be the one hanging in the Meridian Gate one day." He rubbed his neck, "I still cherish my life."

Why don't I believe it? If he was really afraid of me, he wouldn't have given me so little good looks after entering the princess's mansion. But this time, he was definitely helping me.

I was getting more and more confused. Was he a good guy or a bad guy? Could I still trust him?

"Do you know who sent people to take away the body of the mute slave?" I asked tentatively.

"Didn't that person say so? He was someone from the palace."

I was almost furious, and I couldn't tell whether he really knew but didn't tell me, or he didn't know but pretended to know and deliberately didn't tell me.

"Don't think about it. If you want to collect the body of the mute slave, do it quickly. This weather won't wait!" He didn't say much after that, and I understood.

When we got to the city gate, I saw that all the checkpoints we had set up had been removed. I subconsciously wanted to ask Tianhe if he knew about Jiang Huan's arrangements, but I held back when I looked at him. Anyway, we hired a carriage and successfully left the city and headed east.

The charity cemetery in Baiyalin is a little closer. I don’t know the way, so Tianhe drove.

There was only one middle-aged man guarding the charity cemetery. After he asked us why we were here, he deliberately rubbed his fingers together and said, "We have rules here too. We can't just let anyone in to visit."

Tianhe took out the silver quickly, and the other party took the money and pointed to the largest room. In this kind of weather, there were no other corpses in the charity cemetery, and there was no room to store them. There was only one body that was delivered today, wrapped in a straw mat and piled under the wall in the corner like cargo.

The man guarding the cemetery did not come in with us, but leaned against the door and said sinisterly, "I have been guarding the cemetery for so many years, and I have never seen such a creepy mummified corpse. If you two can take it away, I would like to say thank you very much."

There was a strange smell in the air, a mixture of mold, spices, rotten wood, and something burning. All the smells irritated my nasal cavity and made me feel very uncomfortable.

When I squatted down and prepared to lift the straw mat to confirm the identity, Tianhe stopped me, "No matter how bold you are, you should..." He sighed lightly, "Forget it, let me do it." He pulled open one end of the straw mat in front of me, checked the condition of the body, and then moved aside to make room for me to see clearly.

He was indeed a mute slave. There were obvious scars on his face, and his already gray hair was stained with dirt. Some parts of his hair were clumped together and stuck to his scalp, while others were messy as if they had been cut casually.

It was not until this moment that I felt the real dull pain in my heart, which made it difficult to maintain my balance and I almost collapsed to the ground.

It was Tianhe who supported me and prevented me from falling.