She didn't know if her surprise showed on her face, but when she finally shifted her gaze from the man's face to Yin Wanyu, she intuitively felt a hint of inquiry in Yin Wanyu's eyes.

But before she could take a closer look, Yin Wanyu lowered her voice and said something to the man. After hearing that, the man smiled and backed away from Yin Wanyu.

When they came closer, the man clasped his fists and silently bowed to them, then turned and left.

She thought that since Yin Wanyu had sent the man away, she wouldn't mention him to them, the younger generation. But after the man walked away, Yin Wanyu said to them with a smile, "I'm old now, and I always feel that it's too unfair for them to be with an old woman like me when they are in their prime. I have always been a little too indulgent towards them, which is why you ran into one. But don't worry, Ali, no one will dare to disturb you while you stay here."

Li Shu smiled and said, "Grandma is still very young. I want to learn how to take care of myself from her."

"It's a little early for you to start taking care of yourself at your age, but since you're interested in the beauty tips of an old lady like me, I'll have Yaofang write down some beauty tips and give them to the people around you."

"Well, thanks, Grandma."

"Imperial Aunt, I want one too!"

"Okay, okay, I'll ask Yaofang to send you one too!"

"Hey, thank you, Auntie, but what are you doing? Why did you take down the plaque?"

When Yin Feier asked this, she had already let go of Li Shu and went to look at the taken down plaque.

After she saw the three words "Liuliyuan" engraved on the plaque, Yin Wanyu spoke, "Ali's Liuliyuan was chosen by her mother. When I was arranging a place for Ali to live, I used that name to save trouble. But I just heard that there was a fire at the Zhenbei General's Mansion today, and it happened to burn Ali's Liuliyuan and Ali's mother's Shaoguangyuan. Moreover, in broad daylight, with many people working, the fire was reduced to ruins before it was stopped. It's really strange. To avoid being contaminated by bad luck, I ordered someone to make a new plaque to replace the one here."

"Sister Ali's Liuli Courtyard burned to ruins? And today? Could it be that Xie Yu's doing?" Yin Feier's face was filled with regret and resentment. "Even I heard that after Xie Yu was taken into the Zhenbei General's Mansion, she asked to live in Sister Ali's courtyard, but General Chu and his men didn't agree, so they moved her into Sister Ali's mother's courtyard. Now both courtyards are burned down. Xie Yu must be holding a grudge because she didn't get to live in Sister Ali's courtyard as she wished!"

"How could Xie Yu be that capable?"

"Grandma, don't underestimate her! Even though she may not have long legs and faints all the time, she was able to suddenly appear at the scene where Ning Jin was attacked like a heavenly soldier, and even blocked the fatal blow for Ning Jin amidst the flashing swords and sabers. She must have some extraordinary qualities. Burning down two small courtyards must be a piece of cake for her!"

"..."

Yin Wanyu smiled and shook her head, glancing at Li Shu.

While listening to them talk, Li Shu secretly recalled the details of her dream where she was caught cheating by Ning Jin.

Noticing Yin Wanyu's gaze, she immediately focused her attention and looked towards Yin Wanyu.

The moment their eyes met.

She intuitively felt that Yin Wanyu had seen through the situation and knew that it was she who had ordered the Liuli Courtyard and Shaoguang Courtyard to be burned down, and that was why she had the plaque of this courtyard replaced.

Then Yin Wanyu reached out her hand.

After she placed her hand on it, Yin Wanyu said, "The new plaque hasn't been delivered yet. Let's go in and see if there's anything you're not satisfied with."

Li Shu was just about to say, "My grandmother decorated this place especially for me, so everything must be excellent. How could I not be satisfied?" when she was suddenly stunned.

Many more images flooded into her mind!

After being wrongfully imprisoned and tortured to the point of being almost exhausted, she was taken out of prison by Aunt Yaofang.

Yin Wanyu argued with the emperor in the palace, asking him to investigate the case involving her in detail.

Yin Wanyu also brought the man into the palace for a banquet. After being asked to dance with a sword to entertain the audience, the man took advantage of everyone's unpreparedness to assassinate the emperor, and he succeeded!

Then, the empress suffered a miscarriage due to the shock caused by the emperor's injury. The emperor was furious and demoted Yin Wanyu to a commoner, confiscated her property and expelled her from the capital!

In the end, Yin Wanyu was stopped and killed on her way out of Beijing...

And the man who killed Yin Wanyu was the one just now!

But since he attempted to assassinate the emperor, even if he was ordered to do so, there is no way he would be pardoned!

In addition, he was there when she was caught cheating by Ning Jin, and there was no one else but Xie Yu who would frame her with such an affair!

That means he is Xie Yu's person!

Xie Yuding orchestrated an assassination plot against the emperor to frame Yin Wanyu because Yin Wanyu saved her and wanted to protect her!

"Ali?"

"Sister Ali, what's wrong with you?"

Yin Wanyu and Yin Feier's worried voices sounded at the same time. Li Shu took a deep breath, lowered her head and tried to calm herself down.

But the bloody scene of Yin Wanyu's body being torn apart remained fixed in her mind, and she couldn't calm down no matter what.

In the end, it was Yin Wanyu who held her face and forced her to look up. "What's wrong?"

Facing Yin Wanyu's gentle yet concerned and worried question, Li Shu's eyes warmed up and she had already made up her mind.

Then she miraculously calmed down quickly and dealt with the sudden dizziness.

Therefore, Yin Wanyu didn't bother to show her the yard and sent her directly to her room to rest.

After she pretended to be asleep and let Yin Wanyu and Yin Feier leave early, she opened her eyes and wanted to call Jingzhe in to ask Jingzhe to find Lin Yuan for her, only to see Lin Yuan already standing in front of her bed.

Even though she was already used to Lin Yuan's silent comings and goings, she was still shocked.

Unable to hold back, she glared at Lin Yuan, "If I had that kind of heart disease, I would have been scared to death by you countless times!"

Lin Yuan hurriedly bowed and said, "Please forgive me, young lady! I will pay attention to this in the future!"

"Oh~!"

Li Shu let out a long sigh.

After sighing, he said with a gloomy face: "Kill someone for me."

She spoke so nonchalantly that Lin Yuan even wondered for a moment if he had misheard.

But after she finished speaking, she got up from the bed, went to the desk and started grinding ink.

Lin Yuan hurried over to help her grind the ink.

Then, while painting, she said, "This matter is known to you, to me, to heaven and earth, and must never be known to a third person."

"Yes!"

"..."

After a long while, Li Shu put down her brush, picked up the drawing paper and handed it to Lin Yuan. She tilted her head slightly, looked into Lin Yuan's eyes and said, "I'm sorry for making you do this for me."

"My hands are already stained with blood, Miss, please don't mind!"

"Really? You guys at Peacock Terrace have a lot of enemies?"

"That's not the case, but when you're in the underworld, there are always things you have to do."

"The Jianghu..."

That was a completely unfamiliar world to Li Shu.

So when Li Shu took the drawing paper from Lin Yuan and dried it carefully, she said, "Although I am quite confident in my painting, you should still not kill the wrong person. This person is in the Grand Princess's mansion and is about the same height as you."

"Yes! I'll remember it!"

After Lin Yuan responded and left, Li Shu sat quietly in the room for a long time.

When the relatively bright room was completely darkened, she finally realized that she was so busy asking Lin Yuan to help her kill someone that she completely forgot to ask Lin Yuan about what happened in the Zhenbei General's Mansion!

At this time, in the Zhenbei General's Mansion, Li Yunzhi, who had entered the study during the day and sat down at the desk in a daze, finally found the letter on his desk.

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