"Yes." The servant left as instructed.

After a day, the servant quietly brought back several women of similar age. Two of them wanted to marry into a wealthy family, so they have not yet married, so it is difficult for them to find a good family now.

Yang Yuning looked at one of the women who was wearing a long green dress with dark patterns and ink carvings. Her eyes and eyebrows bore some resemblance to Lady Zhu, the wife of Duke Ningguo.

Then he asked the man a few more questions tentatively.

Yang Yuning looked at the other party and answered calmly and calmly.

My liking for her increased instantly.

Yang Yuning left her alone and sent all the other women away.

Then he raised his finger and pointed at the woman and asked, "What's your name?"

The woman in the green dress stepped forward, bowed respectfully and said, "Sir, my name is Ye Yimu."

Yang Yuning carefully looked at the other party from head to toe, and then told Ye Yimu his plan one by one.

Coincidentally, the Ningguo Duke’s family also has the surname Ye.

Ye Yimu disagreed at first.

But the temptation of power was too great. It was like she could rise to the top overnight and become the second daughter of the Duke's Mansion. She would have endless blessings in her life and would have people to serve her.

It’s just a matter of words to decide what kind of good family you want to marry into in the future.

Compared to an ordinary life, she was eventually forced to marry into a farmer's family and work hard all her life.

Ye Yimu gritted his teeth and agreed.

Seeing that she was sensible, Yang Yuning asked the foster mother he had invited in advance to come over and teach her some rules of the noble mansion. He also asked her to memorize the words and other identities he had prepared word for word and remember them by heart.

Finally, he gave her the tiger-head jade pendant and asked her to memorize all the patterns on it and also note all the flaws.

After arranging everything, Yang Yuning left the room.

and.

In the palace of Prince Jin.

Xie Jingrui looked at her coldly and asked, "When can we find the person?"

The secret guard knelt on the ground and trembled as he replied, "Your Highness, we have already found him. He is on his way back and will be back later. But the old woman was stubborn and we didn't get any information from her on the way. She insisted that the child the princess was pregnant with was the young prince."

Xie Jingrui narrowed his cold eyes and said in a low voice, "Protect her well. The closer we get to Kyoto, the more careful we must be. Capture one person from each of the other two groups and let that woman know. If she doesn't tell the truth, we will release her and let others do whatever they want with her."

The wound on Liu Yunni's back had almost healed, and she was now walking towards Xie Jingrui's study with a bowl of chicken soup.

The sound of two people talking was heard in the study, and Liu Yunni stopped.

The secret guard who was guarding in the dark hurried out and saluted Liu Yunni.

"See Princess."

Xie Jingrui put away the things on the desk, then signaled the secret guard to stand up and stop talking.

Liu Yunni had a gentle smile on her face: "I heard that the prince is in the study, so I came to bring him some food to relieve his fatigue."

The prince didn't like someone suddenly barging in and interrupting him when he was doing something.

Just as the secret guard was about to refuse, the study door was suddenly opened from the inside, and another secret guard said expressionlessly: "Princess, please come in."

A flash of surprise flashed across Liu Yunni's eyes, and she walked towards Xie Jingrui's study with the food box.

The furnishings here remain the same.

Liu Yunni's heart was moved as she looked at Xie Jingrui with his sword-like brows and cold eyes. Her obsession with Xie Jingrui almost reached the point of madness.

She withdrew her gaze from Xie Jingrui, bowed, and called out in a gentle voice, "Your Majesty."

Xie Jingrui kept his eyes fixed on the books on the desk, never looking up at her, and asked in a distant voice, "What's the matter?"

Liu Yunni placed the food box on the corner of Xie Jingrui's desk and said in a hostess tone, "I heard that the prince stayed in the study for a long time. I was worried that the prince was too tired, so I asked the kitchen to stew chicken soup for the prince."

The words fell.

Xie Jingrui looked at Liu Yunni with a scrutinizing gaze, and the distrust in his eyes was not concealed at all.

Liu Yunni held the handkerchief, bit her red lips and explained, "There is nothing unclean in this chicken soup. Your Majesty can drink it without worry."

Xie Jingrui's face suddenly turned colder: "Sell out all the servants in the princess's courtyard. Whoever made the decision to release the princess during her confinement shall be punished with twenty strokes of the cane!"

Liu Yunni was in a happy mood, but when she heard Xie Jingrui's words, her face turned pale as she looked at the man in front of her.

"Prince, Prince, what do you mean? If you don't want me to send anything over, just say it directly. Why make things difficult for those servants." Liu Yunni thought of her mother Lai, who was only thinking about her and was about to be sent out of the mansion.

Her face turned even paler. The prince was going to cut off her support and tie her up tightly in the backyard!

"The servants don't understand what the king is saying. There is no need for such servants over there. I will replace them with a new batch for the princess. You can withdraw now if you have nothing else to do."

Xie Jingrui's words were firm and did not allow Liu Yunni to refuse.

He raised his hand to signal the secret guards, and then said, "Drag out the servant who let the princess out without permission and give him twenty strokes of the cane, and replace all the servants in the princess' courtyard with well-behaved ones."

Liu Yunni looked at Xie Jingrui's resolute and handsome face, and somehow she returned to the courtyard in a daze.

In the courtyard.

Mother Lai's wails could be heard one after another. She was knocked unconscious several times, but the guards woke her up by pouring water on her and then continued to beat her with the remaining boards.

"Ah! Princess, please save this old slave, help me... Ouch..." Mother Lai's voice came to Liu Yunni's ears in waves.

The maids around her were also dragged away and sold out, and the sounds of crying were heard one after another in Liu Yunni's courtyard.

Liu Yunni felt powerless for the first time. She fell down on the bed, covered her ears with her hands and dared not listen any more.

After a long time.

A new group of servants came to Liu Yunni's courtyard. Although they were respectful to her, Liu Yunni felt that they were more like people sent by Xie Jingrui to monitor her.

She suddenly felt regretful for not listening to her mother and divorcing Xie Jingrui earlier so that she could take the money and live a life without worries about food and clothing.

Liu Yunni raised her hand and grabbed the maid in front of her and said, "Send a message back to the Liu Mansion for me tomorrow. I, I want to see my mother..."

The maid's eyes were filled with indifference as she bowed to Liu Yunni and said, "Yes, I will have the servant leave the mansion tomorrow to deliver a message to the princess."

With the maid's words, Liu Yunni finally felt relieved.

The old woman who had served Liu Yunni before her delivery had been taken back to Prince Jin's Mansion.

Xie Jingrui hurried over.

Mrs. Li was frightened all the way. Looking at the man in front of her, wearing a black robe and a golden crown, with sword-like eyebrows and cold eyes, a handsome and stern face, and a noble temperament emanating from his whole body, she recognized at a glance that the man with a strong aura in front of her was the cold-faced prince Xie Jingrui.

Mrs. Li kowtowed heavily to Xie Jingrui and said, "This old servant greets His Majesty."

Xie Jingrui sat on a high seat, looking down at Mrs. Li in front of him, and asked in a cold voice: "Tell me everything you know about the princess back then."

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