Abandoned Woman Busy Farming

Chapter 2578: Chapter 2579: The Enemy of My Enemy

Jiang Yichun noticed Bai Ruozhu’s reaction, couldn’t help but glance at the Pearl Shawl.

The Emperor led them around the back, unexpectedly there were mechanical features on the bookshelf, upon opening it revealed a hidden compartment, inside were numerous ancient texts.

”It’s all here, honestly, I haven’t had much time to go through them, I usually just read the Buddhist Scriptures.” The Emperor said with some embarrassment, he really wasn’t interested in these books otherwise he wouldn’t have needed them to check each one.

”It’s alright, let’s take a look first.” Bai Ruozhu said.

She started flipping through from the first book of the first row on the left. She scanned rapidly, and the Emperor couldn’t just stand idly so he picked a book to read.

He found that when he had only read a third, Bai Ruozhu had already finished the third book.

He guessed Bai Ruozhu was likely looking for some special markings or words, that’s why she read so fast.

In fact, not only did Bai Ruozhu look at it, she essentially memorized all of it.

She was inherently strong in Divine Sense, practically able to achieve photographic memory, plus she was fully focused, making her extremely efficient.

Jiang Yichun didn’t read fast, but he occasionally found useful clues to show Bai Ruozhu, while the Emperor found nothing for a long time, making him feel very awkward, probably he picked an useless book.

Emperor os: I probably picked a fake book.

There were many ancient texts, the content was very mixed, and in no time four hours passed, Bai Ruozhu had only gone through one-third, she glanced at the pocket watch around her neck, somewhat apologetically said to the Emperor: ”We have taken up Your Majesty’s time for too long, it’s time for dinner, we should take our leave.”

”It’s fine, it’s fine, I happened to get a better understanding.” The Emperor said hastily.

”We’ll come back tomorrow, and by then Your Majesty can attend to your own matters, we will just come in and take a look.” Bai Ruozhu said.

”That works.” The Emperor replied somewhat awkwardly, having spent half a day without contributing anything.

The three of them left the Secret Chamber, Bai Ruozhu and Jiang Yichun bid farewell and left the Palace, without mentioning a visit to the Second Prince.

After they left, the Second Prince was supported inside, he asked disappointedly: ”They’re still unwilling to agree?”

The Emperor sighed, ”They say they have too many enemies, fearing that once they leave, they will bring trouble to disciples. What they said makes sense, don’t be too persistent.”

The Second Prince shook his head, ”They’re still angry with my birth mother consort, besides she doesn’t like that I’m She Zongyi’s student.”

”Her? Bai Ruozhu?” The Emperor asked, ”They have a grudge with She Zongyi?”

The Second Prince hesitated a moment, but still told the truth, ”Lord Bai once said that at sea they were robbed by Black Pirates, and Black Pirates’ mastermind is exactly She Zongyi, I think there might be some misunderstanding here, She Zongyi has always done business well, these years he has been very good to me. I...”

The Emperor was also somewhat skeptical, ”She knows you don’t believe her, naturally she’s unwilling to accept you as a disciple, perhaps there’s...”

He also couldn’t quite be sure, but during this period of interaction, he vaguely felt he should heed Bai Ruozhu and Jiang Yichun’s words, seemingly they never falsely claimed anything, because fundamentally they held disdain.

If She Zongyi is the leader of Black Pirates, hiding so deeply, wouldn’t that be another Anben?

...

On the way back, Bai Ruozhu shared some information she discovered with Jiang Yichun.

”In one book there’s a record on the Fusang Imperial family members over different generations, among them five former Emperors died suddenly at thirty, the information only states they died of illness without specifying the illness, only one mentioned Heart Disease, suggesting sudden death, even those around were unaware of the reason.”

Bai Ruozhu continued, ”I suspect those five had Merfolk Bloodline, very capable, so they smoothly became Emperor, but they didn’t know they would die at thirty, very suddenly. Until the fifth person realized and joined Buddhism, often stayed in a temple, passing the Emperor position to his younger brother, yet still died at thirty of illness.”

”He probably discovered something then, so the temple took on the task of testing the Emperor heir, later this task fell to Zhaoti Temple.” Jiang Yichun nodded and said.

”Right, probably then, but this matter was kept as a secret, after all, the Imperial family can’t let the people know they have such a bloodline issue, it would cause public panic, like someone might speculate, what if that generation of the Imperial family heir all had Merfolk Bloodline and didn’t live past thirty?”

”Have they not found from where the first generation of Emperor came?” Jiang Yichun asked.

”They only said he was a Heavenly God, nothing else mentioned, probably he never told his true identity until he disappeared.” Bai Ruozhu replied.

Jiang Yichun showed surprise, ”Disappeared? Not died at thirty?”

”No, I looked at some materials, they say Heavenly God established the Fusang Royal Family, left descendants, then returned to heaven.” Bai Ruozhu said with a smile, ”Impossible to return to heaven, either he left quietly or went back to Merfolk Island.”

”But Merfolk shouldn’t allow intermarriage with outsiders, right?” Jiang Yichun recalled his mother, Gao Zhou said she was captured by her clansmen, they also called her a saintess.

”Initially it might not have been forbidden, we’ll look into it more tomorrow.” Bai Ruozhu said.

...

In Anzhen Residence, Anben’s face had turned cyan due to poisoning, he was almost out of breath.

At this moment, a confidant rushed in, excitedly saying: ”Patriarch, there’s hope, he agreed.”

”How is that possible?” Anben couldn’t believe it, ”Didn’t you find out that the most skilled physician is She Zongyi? He’s my sworn enemy.”

”He said as long as the exchange satisfies him, he’s willing to provide an antidote, he also said an enemy’s enemy is a friend.” the confidant said.

Anben laughed, but coughing violently because of it, coughing out a mouthful of blood, scaring the confidant into quickly patting his back and smoothing his Qi, saying: ”Patriarch, don’t be agitated, take care of your health.”

”I’m fine, I should have thought, She Zongyi also has a grudge with them, fine, agree with him, offer half the family wealth but first I’ll give half, the rest will be paid after detoxification, how do I know if his medicine is genuine?” Anben said.

”Yes, I will handle it.”

Anben stopped the confidant, paused before speaking: ”Have palace people check on the Crown Prince, see how he is now.”

The confidant opened his mouth, he wanted to say the Crown Prince was really unfilial, but ultimately couldn’t bear to say it out loud.

”Don’t overthink it, I taught him, foresight is also what I taught, if I were him, I would have done the same.” Anben said solemnly.