The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

"what!!!"

"It's dead!!!"

"There's a dead person in the river... in the river!!!"

The narration was not finished when it was quickly interrupted by a burst of rapid and noisy voices. Lu Weiyuan looked back in the direction where the sound originally came from, but saw that the boats that had been shuttling in the river in an orderly manner were like a flock of sheep startled by wild wolves, and they were all hiding in a certain direction in fear.

"Someone's dead?" Lu Weiyuan only took a quick look, then turned back to Luochuanke, "What a coincidence."

Luochuanke, who had just told the story about the death of a person, frowned and lowered his voice slightly: "...It is indeed a coincidence."

"Hey, what's wrong with you two women?" Brother Zhang was frightened by the dead man and his face turned pale. Then he saw that the two young women on the boat next to him did not show the kind of fear he expected. He became more and more dissatisfied, "What kind of coincidence is this? Did you expect this a long time ago?"

“You…” are the murderer?

Before Brother Zhang could finish his words, he heard the old boatman on the boat scream, staggered back a step and almost fell into the water.

Lu Weiyuan gently pressed the boat under him, and invisible energy was released, stabilizing the boat without making a sound: "Old man, be careful, why don't you sit down first."

Their boat was not close to the source of the riot, nor was it blocking the center of the river. Lu Weiyuan just watched coldly as pale-faced people paddled past him quickly. "It's just a dead person, not a dead person climbing onto the boat. This is still within common sense. People die every day."

"No...it's just..." The old boatman was shaking all over. He bent his knees and squatted on the boat tremblingly. Then his legs went limp and he sat down. "A dead man!!! Ahhhh, a dead man is floating over!!!"

At some point, the boats ahead had all fled in a panic, leaving only Lu Weiyuan's small boat and Qi Shaofeng's black-sailed boat that was blocked and unable to retreat on the river.

The surface of the river still contained the aftermath of the crowd's hasty escape, and along with the waves slowly came a pale corpse.

She was wearing a snow-white dress and had long black hair like algae. What was particularly eye-catching was that between the black and the snow-white, a bright red silk cloth was wrapped around the corpse and swaying quietly in the water.

"Ah!!!" Brother Zhang screamed and, regardless of anything, used all his limbs to hide in the cabin of the sloop.

Qi Shaofeng was so frightened that his face turned pale. He held on to the table on the black-sailed boat several times but failed to stand up. He looked again and saw that the boatman who was originally rowing the boat had nimbly jumped to the shore, while on the other side of the boat, the two women whose origins were unknown and who were particularly good at hurting others with words were still sitting still.

Especially the one who looked younger, he leaned over to the side of the boat, stretched out his hand to grab the body that was floating in the water, turned the body over without any taboo, pushed aside the messy black hair, and then uttered a surprised voice: "Oh, it's a boy."

"Male?" Luo Chuanke's brows were still tightly knitted. She stood up, stepped forward steadily, squatted down next to Lu Weiyuan, and also looked at the body. "It hasn't been soaked for long."

"He died yesterday, right?" Lu Weiyuan added thoughtfully, and then asked casually, "Did Sister Xiaochuan plan to tell me the story she didn't finish?"

"Yes." Luochuanke nodded, "But the one who died in my story was a woman."

A beautiful woman.

But the corpse floating with the water, although wearing a long white dress, was indeed a man, and he was not very old, nor that handsome, with very ordinary facial features. But from his skin and hands and feet, it can be seen that even if he is not the son of an official, he certainly will not come from a poor family.

"...She should have been educated, and she seems to be able to write. There are traces of rouge at the corners of her lips?" Lu Weiyuan observed the body as he moved it back and forth in the water. "There are no other traces of makeup on her face. Hmm, the color of her lips is abnormal. It's not the purple from being soaked in cold water for too long, but more like the dark purple from poisoning."

Luo Chuanke, who was standing by, looked at her in surprise: "I didn't expect Yun Ni to be good at observing corpses."

"You'll get the hang of it if you watch more." Lu Weiyuan actually didn't have much interest in autopsies, and it was just as she said, if you watch more, you'll get the hang of it.

Her childhood was warm enough, but the elders did not just raise their beloved daughter in a greenhouse. Xie Yuzhen never thought of protecting his daughter tightly, so he often condoned Lu Weiyuan's behavior of sneaking away without permission and playing tricks on the palace maids. At the same time, he never stopped her from sneaking into the spy team of Yongjia Marquis Mansion at a young age, to watch, or to do some things personally that could not be said in public.

Lu Weiyuan was intelligent since childhood, and his insights, knowledge, and character were far beyond the reach of ordinary people.

When others knew that Princess Yuyi left the capital alone, most of them just thought that she was just a child, spoiled and acting foolishly; but the elders, led by her mother Xie Yuzhen, knew better than to know how powerful Lu Weiyuan, this young girl, actually was, both physically and mentally.

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"The backbone of the three camps followed the emperor out of the capital. The rats in the capital have indeed made some moves." Xia Zhi made his daily report to Xie Yuzhen as usual. "The young marquis entered the traveling team of His Majesty and his wife as a substitute. He has successfully switched from the open to the covert and successfully took over our intelligence network."

She took out a secret letter from her sleeve and said, "Madam, this time the children also brought a handwritten letter from the young marquis."

Xie Yuzhen took the letter and said as he opened it, "I'm afraid this kid will complain again about some ignorant brat approaching Yuan Jun... Oh? Dead?"

"Miss?"

Xie Yuzhen chuckled and said, "Someone in Tongzhou noticed the movements of Yuanjun and her group, guessed her identity, and tried to approach her by pretending to be his own nephew, pretending to be unaware of Yuanjun's origins. However, that person was killed by an unknown person early on, and his body was thrown into the river."