Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 1090: Chapter 1091: Master...

The spy had not found out anything at the Han family when An Jing and Xiao Changyi were informed by Meng Zhuqing that his wedding day with Tobanya had been set for the twenty-fourth of the next month. They had already consulted someone for an auspicious date, and the twenty-fourth of the next month turned out to be a good day, so that was the day they settled on.

At that time, Meng Zhuqing would marry Tobanya into the General’s mansion, but after the wedding, Tobanya would move to Prince Yi’s Mansion with Meng Zhuqing.

Meanwhile, after spending seven days in the Han family, the spy finally uncovered some news.

To be precise, the spy overheard a conversation between brothers Han Xinche and Han Xinrui.

It turned out that both Han Xinche and Han Xinrui had been secretly investigating the whereabouts of Su Chenglin.

Han Xinche and Han Xinrui, like Gong Juechen, believed that the Emperor of Xiyun intended to eliminate all his sons except for Su Chengyu to ensure that Su Chengyu could ascend to the position of Crown Prince and inherit the throne without any threats.

Simultaneously, the spy overheard that Han Xinche mentioned Consort Han’s personal maid, Ling’er, who seemed to be the one who had informed Han Xinche and Han Xinrui about the matter.

Upon learning this, Xiao Changyi commanded, ”Go and find out where this Ling’er is now.”

”Yes!” The spy, who was Qin Yi, immediately set off to do so.

Three days later, Qin Yi discovered that the maid named Ling’er, soon after being dismissed from the palace, had married into an ordinary family in the Imperial Capital.

However, her husband died the day they married, and her husband’s family, believing she brought bad luck, drove her out.

Since then, she had never remarried but had settled down in a particularly small house in the north of the Imperial Capital, living alone and hardly interacting with anyone.

Once Xiao Changyi knew where the maid lived, he immediately took Gong Juechen to find her.

Gong Juechen initially did not want to come, thinking that Xiao Changyi was wasting his efforts and that the Emperor of Xiyun ruthlessly wanted to kill them all; but seeing Xiao Changyi so earnest in his investigation, he no longer refused and came along.

Meng Zhuqing also came along with them.

Upon reaching the maid’s house, Meng Zhuqing stepped forward to knock on the door. Soon, an old woman opened the door for them.

After more than twenty years, the once young woman had aged.

”Who are you looking for?” the old woman asked, squinting her eyes as she was not sure if her eyesight was poor, immediately peering out at them.

Before Meng Zhuqing could speak, Gong Juechen folded his arms and said, ”There’s only you in this house, who else could we be looking for?”

The old woman then turned her eyes towards Gong Juechen and as she looked more closely, she approached him until, eventually, she broke down crying and suddenly knelt down, ”My lord!”

Gong Juechen’s heart suddenly ached. He resembled his imperial consort mother so closely—it was no wonder this woman with poor eyesight mistook him, a man, for his mother.

”My lord, weren’t you burned to death? How are you here? Could it be that Ling’er is already dead?” the old woman sobbed and asked.

”I am not your lord,” Gong Juechen said coldly. ”Can’t you tell by the sound of my voice that I am a man?”

”Man...” The old woman startled and quickly scrambled up, hunched over with her wrinkled face, squinting harder as she scrutinized Gong Juechen.

Seeing that Gong Juechen was indeed a man, the old woman murmured to herself, ”You really resemble the lord...”

Kindly, Meng Zhuqing said, ”He is the son of your lord, the Seventh Prince, Su Chenglin.”

The old woman reacted with shock, then rapidly retreated, ”No, no, no, the lord, the Seventh Prince, and the Eighth Princess were all burned to death; he is not the Seventh Prince, he’s not.”