……

Shang Tingli ultimately did not finish listening to the play with her sisters that was obviously adapted from her parents' deeds. She hurried back to Prince Ren's Palace, feeling extremely confused.

She had never paid attention to it. Even when she caught a cold last time, she never thought of such a thing.

Doctor He just said that it's not that Poria cocos cannot be used to treat wind-cold diseases, but the opera said that the doctor had already added longan to the medicine prescribed for the prefect's wife, so Poria cocos should not be added to it, otherwise symptoms such as difficulty breathing may occur, and in severe cases, it may cause suffocation and death.

Since Doctor He pointed out the mistake here, Chunwuban accepted the advice humbly and revised the script on the spot.

But some things can never be made up for.

Memories come flooding back.

She still remembered that after her parents caught a cold, the doctor who treated them was found by Aunt Yan. The doctor's surname was Qu, and the prescription he wrote included Poria cocos and longan. She was young at the time and didn't know anything about these rare medicinal herbs. It was thanks to Aunt Yan that she remembered this incident.

Aunt Yan usually prepared the medicine herself. One day, someone seemed to come to look for Aunt Yan, so she volunteered to prepare the medicine for her parents herself to show her filial piety.

Aunt Yan came back after a quarter of an hour. When she came back, she asked her, "Xiao Li, did you leak anything?"

"Should there be none?"

“Have you put the longan in?”

"Let it go!"

Aunt Yan asked again: "What about Fuling?"

She looked up suddenly: "Poria cocos? It seems not..." Oh no, she actually dared to leave out an ingredient!

Aunt Yan touched her head and said softly and gently, "It's okay. It's only been a while. It's still not too late with Fuling."

Aunt Yan sent her aside and insisted on making the medicine herself.

Thinking of this, Shang Tingli didn't have the courage to think further. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes and called out, "Fei Luan."

"Why are you calling Feiluan?"

It was Ke Xin's voice.

Shang Tingli opened her eyes and saw Ke Xin sitting opposite her. Today he seemed less lazy than before, and his eyes, like clear ponds, carried emotions that she could not understand.

As soon as she opened her mouth, her voice was a little hoarse: "I want Fei Luan to do something for me."

Shang Tingli clenched her fists. It was hard for her to accept that her parents were murdered by someone.

Ke Xin stared at her for a while, sighed slowly, stretched out his hand, and finally his hand fell on the top of her hair, stroking it for a moment before leaving.

He tried to remain calm: "I know what you are going to do."

Shang Tingli looked up in astonishment: "How could the prince know that? Aren't you no longer able to hear my thoughts?"

Ke Xin said, "When you and your sister were listening to the opera in Fengting Tower, Brother Yunyan and I happened to be playing chess on the second floor. The private room we were using happened to be able to see you guys downstairs."

In other words, they could see everything that happened downstairs.

Shang Tingli opened his mouth, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"I know you will pay attention to this, so I have already asked Feiluan and Feiying to do it in advance." Ke Xin said, "Just wait for the result."

Shang Tingli curled his lips and said, "Thank you, my Lord."

It was almost lunchtime, but she looked unhappy and had no appetite. Ke Xin winked at the two maids waiting outside and went out.

The two older girls knelt down and asked, "What do you want, my lord?"

Ke Xin glanced at Gan Tang. He remembered that this person had a rather lively personality, so he thought it would be no problem for him to make people happy, so he said, "You go in and accompany the Crown Prince's Consort."

Gan Tang responded and went into the house.

Fang Zhi was left alone to face Ke Xin, she was a little overwhelmed. Then she heard Ke Xin ask her: "When the Crown Prince's Consort is in a bad mood, what does she like to eat?"

Fang Zhi was stunned for a moment before answering, "Spicy duck with Sichuan pepper."

Ke Xin found it a little hard to believe: "Doesn't she always like sweets?" He remembered that she didn't eat spicy food much. Given her love for sweets, he always suspected that spicy food would make her cry.

Fang Zhi couldn't put it into words: "When the Crown Prince's Consort is in a bad mood, she likes spicy food. She doesn't care whether she can eat it or not. She just likes the spicy taste."

What she didn’t say was that every time the Crown Prince’s wife cried because of the spicy food, she would always curse the dish, saying that the dish bullied her, and then she would feel better after crying for a while.

Ke Xin was half-believing and half-doubting, and sent Fang Zhi into the house to accompany Shang to attend the ceremony.

Noon.

Ke Xin called Shang Tingli to have dinner. She originally had no appetite, but some dishes had such strong aromas that she was attracted to them and her appetite increased rapidly.

When she saw a large table full of delicious dishes, including several spicy ones, Shang Tingli subconsciously thought that it was the small kitchen that Fang Zhi had ordered, and she gave Fang Zhi a thumbs up.

Shang Tingli sat down to eat with Ke Xin, leaving Fang Zhi with a confused look on her face.

Ke Xin narrowed his eyes.

Fang Zhi suddenly felt the weather getting colder. She touched her arm feeling a little uncomfortable and looked at the sky outside.

It's strange. The strong sun outside can dry people out, so why does she feel so cold?

……

Half a month later, Ke Xin received a letter from Fei Ying via carrier pigeon, saying that the truth had been found out and one of the letters contained an explanation of the truth.

He gave the letter to Shang Tingli.

After Shang Tingli saw it, he was stunned for a long time.

Feiying said in the letter that her parents' death was indeed man-made, and the murderer was Zhang Xiaoyan.

The other letter was written jointly by Qiu Ming and Zhang Xiaoyan. In the letter, Zhang Xiaoyan explained everything and admitted her guilt, while Qiu Ming apologized to her.

It turned out that the real mastermind behind the murder was Princess Wu Fang of Jinyang. She and Zhang Xiaoyan were cousins, and it was she who instigated Zhang Xiaoyan to commit the murder.

Back then, Yu Yang's beauty shocked the entire Shangjing City. In addition to many children from aristocratic families, many princes were also fascinated by her. The current emperor Mingwu was one of them, and Jinyang King Ke Youyi was another. In order to get her, several princes fought hard. They only had eyes for her and were crazy about her. This made the late emperor dissatisfied several times, thinking that she was a beauty that brought disaster.

This led to the arranged marriage between Yu Yang and He Dan. It was also because of this that He Dan, the top scholar who should have enjoyed great glory, was instead sent to a remote countryside to work as a landowner. Even though he had outstanding political achievements, there was no possibility for him to report to the capital.

Wu Fang had already fallen in love with Ke Youyi, but at that time Ke Youyi only had eyes for Yu Yang, so she hated Yu Yang to the core. Even though Yu Yang finally married He Dan and moved south, and she married Ke Youyi as she wished, she still couldn't bear to see Yu Yang having an easy life.

Therefore, Zhang Xiaoyan's friendship with Yu Yang was Wu Fang's plan to kill Yu Yang from the beginning to the end.

But in this matter, Qiu Ming was innocent from beginning to end, and he was not an insider. It was just that he did have feelings for Zhang Xiaoyan, and he did not favor Zhang Xiaoyan in the letter, but only asked that he could stay by Zhang Xiaoyan's side.

Shang Tingli slowly closed his eyes and said in a very soft voice: "Please, my lord, please hand over these evidences to the Dali Temple. I... can't die, and I don't want to condone it."

Even though it was Zhang Xiaoyan who did the murder, she was unwilling to let the culprit go. If it weren't for Wu Fang, what hatred would her mother have with Zhang Xiaoyan?

"The Dali Temple may not dare to accept it."

When Shang Tingli opened her eyes, they were already red. She said firmly, "Then I will go and file a complaint with the emperor."

Ke Xin comforted him, "Don't bother yourself like that. I will go to the palace in person and take care of this for you."

Shang Tingli paused and said with difficulty: "You are going to file a complaint with the emperor as well, right? Wouldn't that implicate you?"

Ke Xin smiled and said, "I have always been thick-skinned. I will just ask Uncle Huang to show some leniency."

Shang Tingli looked at him sincerely, her slightly moist eyes as clear as ever, and she grinned and said, "Ke Xingchen, thank you."

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