In the mansion.
After Marquis of the Southern Kingdom sent Li Cheng away, he had hurried to the mansion to wait for them.
When he found out that Li Cheng had brought them to the Ministry of Revenue, he had almost been caught by the Second Prince.
Bai Yin slammed the table and stood up.
"How could you go to the Ministry of Revenue without notifying me first?"
Li Cheng explained, "It was an emergency."
"We couldn't rush it."
"Now that everyone is busy with Du Mubai's case, they definitely won't notice the Ministry of Revenue. I thought that if I went there now, no one would notice, and it would be very safe. This is the decision I made after careful consideration."
However, Bai Yin did not fall for his trick.
After all, he was a man who had lived on the grasslands. To him, these explanations were like playing the lute to a cow.
He thought that Li Cheng had made a hasty decision.
"If the Second Prince had found out and something had happened to them, I wouldn't have let you get away with it."
Li Cheng was speechless.
He didn't know how to respond.
Bai Yin fumed.
Lang Po was thinking about something else. He clicked his tongue, then looked at Li Cheng and asked, "Wait, you're saying that... when you were almost discovered by the Second Prince, Marquis of the Southern Kingdom appeared and saved you! Not only that, he even knew my two young masters? And in the end... he even took them away. Is that so?
Is that so? "
His eyes flashed with confusion.
Under his question, Li Cheng nodded stiffly.
Lang Po exclaimed, "Who is this Marquis of the Southern Kingdom? “
Li Cheng said, "From the looks of it, Young Master Ji and Young Master Jing seem to know Marquis of the Southern Kingdom, but I don't know when they met." “
What if something happens to them? I have to find them. “
Lang Po grabbed his sword and was about to leave … but Li Cheng, who was sober for once, quickly pulled him back. "Don't worry, the Marquis of the Southern Kingdom isn't a bad person. I know him. He's a marquis, but he's actually an honest businessman! Besides, if he really wanted to harm Young Master Ji and Young Master Jing, he wouldn't have gone to the Ministry of Revenue to help me.
They were exonerated. "
"Then now..."
"I think they must have something important to say. Even if you go now, you won't be able to find them."
"What you're saying is..."
Before he could finish, footsteps came from outside the door.
Everyone turned to look.
Ji Yunshu and Jing Rong entered the room.
Bai Yin was the first to rush out and ask, "How was it?"
"Let's talk inside."
They went in.
Jing Rong told him about the matter of asking the Marquis of the Southern Kingdom to help find Cha He.
Bai Yin asked, "Do you really believe him?" Ji Yunshu explained, "When the Marquis of the Southern Kingdom came to Great Lin to do business, we coincidentally met in a run-down temple. At that time, his wife had died in an accident on the road, but she still had a child in her womb. Seeing that the child wasn't completely stillborn, I cut open her abdomen and extracted the child.
So, I told him our purpose of coming to Huyi, hoping to use his ability to help us find the person. After all, we have already alerted the enemy, so it's impossible for us to go to the Ministry of Revenue. "
He sighed helplessly.
Li Cheng sighed and looked ashamed. "I'm really sorry. I thought I was doing this out of goodwill, but I almost got into trouble."
"Crown Prince Cheng, you have done your best."
"However, only now do I know that the Marquis of the Southern Kingdom's Crown Prince was actually saved by you. This is fate. You are truly living Bodhisattvas."
A living Buddha!
Is that so?
Ji Yunshu smiled bitterly.
She could save the lives of others, but she couldn't protect the lives of the people around her.
She should be the bane of their existence!
…
Southern Kingdom Manor.
The Ancestral Hall in the backyard.
The Marquis of the Southern Kingdom dragged his feet as he walked inside.
His hands hung limply at his sides.
His eyes were moist and his face was full of sorrow.
The smell of incense and candles was strong in the ancestral hall. There were many candles placed on the shelves on both sides.
In this quiet night, the flames flickered faintly.
His shadow grew longer and longer …
He stood there and looked at the memorial tablets in front of him, which were covered by two pieces of red cloth.
The two tablets were placed at the front.
After a long time …
He reached out and tore off one of the red cloths.
Twenty years had passed, and the marks left behind by time could be clearly seen on the tablet. It was broken and old …
But it had been wiped clean by someone.
The words "Ming Dao Memorial Tablet" were written on it.
Few people in Huyi knew that the two words "Ming Dao" were the title of the late king before he ascended the throne.
Therefore, this tablet was set up by the Marquis of the Southern Kingdom for the late king.
Back then, the late king was beheaded by the current King of Huyi in the main hall. His body was thrown into the deep mountains, intending to be eaten by the jackals, wolves, tigers, and leopards in the mountains. Therefore, there was no coffin set up for him in the Imperial Mausoleum.
The generals and officials who were involved in the civil war all thought that the King of Huyi's body had been eaten by the jackals, wolves, tigers, and leopards in the mountains.
But they didn't know that just half an hour after the body was thrown in, the Marquis of the Southern Kingdom's men had already secretly "snatched" the body out of the forest.
Then, he was buried in the tomb of the Marquis of the Southern Kingdom!
Therefore, the words on the tablet were not the title of the late king, but the title he had before he ascended the throne.
It was enshrined in the ancestral hall.
Three incense sticks a day.
And to prevent others from discovering anything, it was covered with red cloth.
The Marquis of the Southern Kingdom said in a low voice and tore off another piece of red cloth.
On the tablet was written "Cha 'er Xi's Memorial Tablet".
This was the tablet of his sister Cha 'er.
No one in Huyi knew that the late king, who enjoyed all the privileges and privileges, had the surname Cha before she was conferred the title of Empress. But because the Cha family made a mistake when they were young, the big families wanted them to separate, so the late king's family removed their original surname.
They changed to the Ke family.
The Marquis of the Southern Kingdom also changed his name to Ke Cha!
Before that, his real name was Cha He!
Only those who had a close relationship with the Cha Clan knew this secret.
Third Master Liao grew up with the late king, empress, and Marquis of the Southern Kingdom, so he knew this secret.
In order to avoid attracting attention, Third Master Liao deliberately gave the name Cha He to Bai Yin.
In fact, when he saw Ji Yunshu's face that was almost identical to his sister's, the Marquis of the Southern Kingdom already had some suspicions. Today, when he heard that the person she was looking for was "Cha He", he was even more certain of one thing.
That Miss Ji definitely had a great relationship with him.
In other words … she was his sister's daughter.
This was the only thing he could think of!
His heart was filled with excitement.
But his heart ached.
Suddenly —
A voice came from behind him, "Is Ah Jin also alive?"
When Lian Que entered, he placed the sword in his hand outside the door.
He walked in quickly.
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