The sickly son died young? After the marriage exchange, I will bring prosperity to his entire clan f

"Alright, leave this to me. But once you're in the inner courtyard, be careful and don't expose yourself too easily."

"Don't worry, you know my situation. Even if I can't run away, I can still hide, right?"

Ling Silang wasn't worried about that at all. "Even though you've seen those people so far, I can't help but worry."

"Don't worry, we've already gone this far. I just want to see what the person behind this is up to. The clothes we made are indeed... soldiers' clothes. I have serious doubts about the motives of the person behind this."

"They're using the students' family members. If this gets out, won't the person behind it use it to threaten those students? After all, the clothes were made by their families. Wouldn't they be able to manipulate them easily?"

Ling Silang agreed with Du Mingxian's guess, "Don't worry, find out as much as you can. I'm going to the Crown Prince's residence tomorrow, so I'll also tell the Crown Prince about your situation and ask him to find a way to send someone to investigate."

Du Mingxian was delighted. "That's great. Let's investigate. I won't feel at ease if we don't."

The two talked for a while before going to sleep.

Lying in bed, Du Mingxian suddenly remembered Liu Ya and Lin Guixiang.

"Lin Guixiang also went, and Liu Ya can no longer go to the workshop because she didn't want to go to the inner courtyard."

“It’s not necessarily a bad thing. I told her she’s been in the yard all afternoon, and I think Jiang Liting will analyze the reasons for her. Maybe she’ll even come over and advise you not to go there anymore.”

"That's easy to say. When I came back tonight, I felt like someone was watching me."

Ling Silang became puzzled. "What are they trying to do? It's one thing to use students' families to do illegal things, but why are they also sending people to monitor them?"

“I see quite a few people in the backyard, and each of them has a watcher. The person behind them must have a lot of people on their hands.”

"Maybe you were transferred to the back because of this. They don't trust people, so they specially arranged for someone to follow you. Observe again in two days. If they don't leave after two days, it proves that everyone has a follower, and then things will be troublesome."

He hoped the other side would have fewer people, rather than assigning a bodyguard to each of the clothing makers.

"That's what I think too. Let's see in a couple of days."

Du Mingxian stayed in the backyard for three days in a row. Every morning she went there early and someone followed her home after finishing her work in the afternoon. This feeling of being watched was really unpleasant.

On the afternoon of the fourth day, Du Mingxian returned home with a serious expression on her face. After arriving home, she gave Ling Silang a look.

Ling Silang understood instantly, and his feelings became complicated.

After the two entered the space that night, they thought carefully about what the forces behind them wanted to do, but they couldn't come up with a good idea.

They all use students' families.

One reason might be that they want to better control these people and make them work for them. Otherwise, the fact that your wives make clothes for us villains will be exposed, and your entire clan's lives will be in danger.

Secondly, the fact that each person doing the work has someone watching them proves that these people have big plans.

Men like Du Mingxian, or those whose family members become officials, are now being held accountable, making things even more difficult for them in the future.

No matter how I think about it, I feel that those people's purpose is the second one.

“These people will definitely want to use us to get some benefits. The question is how they want to do it, in what way, and with whom they want to get these benefits.”

At this point, both Du Mingxian and Ling Silang were stunned.

"Want to write the answers together?"

"it is good."

The two of them took turns writing down their answers, one with a pen and the other with a pen. After they finished, they exchanged their answers and were both shocked to see each other's guesses.

"If what we guessed is true, you will definitely be arranged to live together later on, and you won't go home. This will make it easier for them to control you."

Du Mingxian nodded in agreement, "That's simple. We've all come here with our families to take the exam. You students are taking the exam, and we're just sitting around at home anyway. Wouldn't it be better for us to come and do some work?"

“I also guessed they would make their move at that time, otherwise all the efforts to win over Du Mingxian and her group of students and their families would have been in vain.”

"I think so too, but right now it's all just speculation. Let's wait and see."

"Well, we'll have to wait a bit longer. All our current assumptions are just guesses."

"Should we inform the Crown Prince?"

"Let's forget about it. There's no speculation pointing to us at all. We can contact each other discreetly once it turns out to be true."

The two reached an agreement, and Du Mingxian stood up and started moving around. "Sitting there sewing all day long is really tiring."

"You say they're going to rebel, and they've even brought out their clothes, but what about their weapons? If you want to do something big, you need good weapons. With good weapons, you can succeed more than halfway."

Ling Silang is also clueless. "They must be in some mixed-race area. They built their workshop here, and we definitely wouldn't have found out if we hadn't come."

"If... if those ordinary students find out, they will only face death. Even if they don't die, they won't be able to get the evidence directly to the Heavenly Court."

"It was by chance that we came here because of the Crown Prince's orders, and that's how we came into contact with these things."

"If we were still in our original homes, we probably would never have discovered these people in our lifetime."

Du Mingxian nodded emphatically. She naturally agreed. In her previous life, she had no idea about these things. She had carefully reviewed her memories and found that nothing of the sort happened.

Firstly, these people were well hidden, and secondly, in her previous life, she was devoted to men, children, and everything in the General's Mansion, so she didn't remember much about what happened in the outside world.

Of course I wouldn't know, but if I did, I would at least have some recollection of it.

What happened to those people after that... she really didn't remember.

Ling Silang concluded, "It's all fate; it was our destiny to meet."

Du Mingxian also felt that way.

She encountered all those things in her past life, but in this life, she has encountered many things as well, and has even been subtly involved in the struggle for the throne.

It really is all fate.

Because she had guessed something, Du Mingxian became more careful every time she went to the workshop, observing every detail of the workshop more carefully.

Those people were very careful in their work, and since they were all familiar faces, Du Mingxian didn't notice anything amiss at first.

On this day, Du Mingxian arrived early and found several men moving boxes in the courtyard. The boxes contained the clothes they had made, and the man leading the group was not covering his face.

Du Mingxian glanced at him discreetly, wondering why he looked so familiar.

She only glanced at him briefly, memorized his appearance, and then quickly went back to work, not daring to delay for fear that others would discover her intentions.