Liu Zimo raised his hand and bowed to Xie Jingrui: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for saving my sister time and time again."

"It's just a small favor, nothing to worry about." Xie Jingrui said in a gentle voice.

Liu Fufeng was concerned about the current situation of Song Nanzhi and Yang Yuning. He asked in a gentle voice, "I heard that the prince took them back to his dungeon? The prince is busy with official duties, so why not send them to my camp and I will take good care of them."

Xie Jingrui picked up the teacup on the table again and took a sip.

He said in a deep voice, "Don't bother me, big brother. I have my own arrangements. And I heard from the spies that Song Nanzhi and Yang Yuning are secretly colluding with the Ningguo Mansion. Big brother, please don't get involved."

Liu Zimo frowned, "I didn't know what kind of powerful people Song Nanzhi had contact with before, how come he suddenly got in touch with the people in Ningguo Mansion?"

"Besides, the Ningguo Mansion is now at its peak, and now is the time when the princes are fighting each other. In order to avoid getting involved in muddy waters, they have rarely interacted with officials in the court for many years."

Xie Jingrui's eyes were cold and stern, and he was still playing with the teacup with dark patterns in his hand. He thought, "It shouldn't be about supporting a certain prince. When the servant beside Yang Yuning went to the Ningguo Mansion to ask for an audience, he was holding a jade pendant of good quality."

Liu Yueru thought about how when she was investigating Yuan Qinglian's identity before, she couldn't find any information about Yuan Qinglian before she was three years old.

Liu Zimo suddenly thought of something, his face changed slightly, and he said, "I heard that the Ningguo Mansion has been looking for the missing child for so many years. Could it be that Yang Yuning knows something? Otherwise, given the current state of the Ningguo Mansion, they will definitely not casually receive a businessman. After all, they look down on people who do business."

Liu Yueru looked even uglier after hearing this. She came to sit next to Liu Zimo and said, "Second brother, is the child you mentioned who was lost in the Ningguo Mansion a girl?"

Liu Zimo nodded heavily, "Yes, this incident was well known in Kyoto back then, and the Duke's wife even fell seriously ill because of it. Since then, the Ningguo Mansion has started to inquire about the whereabouts of the child. I heard that when the child was lost, he was carrying a jade pendant with him."

"Many people have come to our house to claim their relationship over the years, but none of them can make Lady Ningguo come out to meet us. I wonder if it's because of the incident of the lost child that year."

Liu Yueru bit her lip and slowly said, "Second brother, do you still remember that the Minister of Industry Yuan Tianxiang had a daughter named Yuan Qinglian?"

A few people only remembered the corrupt Minister of Works Yuan Tianxiang, and had the impression that he had a daughter.

Liu Zimo looked at Liu Yueru with some confusion and asked, "The family members of Minister of Works Yuan Tianxiang were either beheaded, sold, or exiled. Yue'er, why are you suddenly asking this?"

"I secretly found out that Song Nanzhi's concubine Yuan Qinglian is Yuan Tianxiang's daughter, Yuan Qinglian, but she changed her last name. When I was looking for Yuan Qinglian's identity, I couldn't find any trace of her life in Yuan Mansion before she was three years old."

Liu Zimo followed Liu Yueru's words, frowned and asked worriedly, "What do you mean? Yuan Qinglian might be the lost child of Lady Ningguo?"

Liu Yueru nodded heavily.

Liu Zimo's face darkened instantly: "If Yuan Qinglian is really the lost child of Lady Ningguo, if you let Yuan Qinglian recognize her ancestry, I'm afraid she will deliberately embarrass you in the future."

Liu Yueru pursed her lips slightly, and the handkerchief in her hand had been clenched tightly unconsciously.

She looked at Song Yiyan who was playing on the side. She was not afraid of death.

But Yan Ge'er can't do that, he still has a lot of time in his life.

After a long while, Liu Yueru slowly asked, "Is there any way to stop it?"

Liu Zimo shook his head: "Since the other party has already taken the jade pendant to the Ningguo Mansion, it means that the people in the Duke's Mansion have already known about this matter. It is difficult to stop it at this time."

He looked at Liu Yueru's worried look and comforted her, "But don't worry, there may still be room for recovery."

A few people looked at Xie Jingrui who was drinking tea quietly, and then they remembered that there were outsiders present.

Xie Jingrui felt Liu Yueru's gaze and opened his thin lips slightly: "Even if she is the lost child of the Ningguo Mansion, things are different now. Her reputation is now tarnished in this capital. As far as I know, the Ningguo Duke is a man who cares about his reputation, and the Duke's wife's legitimate daughter is the queen, so she has to protect the face and reputation of the entire Duke's Mansion."

“Therefore, even if the Duke’s wife finds Yuan Qinglian, she will not publicly recognize her as her ancestral home, and it is even more impossible for her to appear in the eyes of the world as the second daughter of the Duke’s Mansion at this time.”

Liu Zimo also nodded: "That's right, but it's easier to dodge an open attack than to defend against an arrow from the dark. No matter what you do in the future, you should be careful."

Xie Jingrui glanced at the location of the secret guards outside, and silently thought that he should send a few more secret guards to Liu Yueru for safety.

Hot summer.

Xie Jingrui imprisoned Song Nanzhi and Yang Yuning in his own dungeon and tortured them for several days before sending them to the Dali Temple.

He explained the whole story and left.

What no one expected was that he had just sent the person over at noon.

The Dali Temple on the other side released both of them in the afternoon.

This can be seen.

The people in Ningguo Mansion valued Yuan Qinglian, the lost and found child, more than they expected.

When Yang Yuning was released, the wound on his severed arm had already become necrotic and was covered in pus.

Several doctors gathered around Yang Yuning's wound and said, "Mr. Yang, I'm afraid your arm cannot be completely reattached. Although the broken arm is well preserved, your wound..."

The doctors shut their mouths when they saw Yang Yuning's arm, whose flesh was beginning to stink.

Yang Yuning's face turned terribly dark.

His body was covered with scars from Xie Jingrui's abuse in the dungeon, even his arms...

Yang Yuning thought about what he had promised the Duke's wife to do to bring her child to meet her in two days, and suddenly some ideas came to his mind.

Now that the jade pendant is in her hand, whoever she wants to become the second lady of the Duke's Mansion can be her.

Thinking of this, he still had an idea in his mind.

He looked at the doctors and asked, "Is there nothing you can do? As long as you can reattach my arm, I will pay you whatever you want."

The doctor stood up and bowed, feeling helpless, he said: "Young Master Yang, please ask the genius doctor Yunhe to come and try, maybe he has a better solution."

Yang Yuning dismissed those doctors with a very bad look on his face.

then.

He called a servant over and whispered in his ear, "Find a few smart women around 30 years old in the shortest possible time, preferably unmarried women. This must be done quietly."

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