Feng Yunshu heard his chilling words and quickly shook her head and waved her hands. "No, no, no. Your Highness, you've got the wrong idea... When did I ever say you were like a chicken or a dog? A person as wise and valiant as Your Highness should at least be a fierce tiger in the mountains!"
At this moment, Feng Yunshu silently complained in her heart. In fact, you're more like the ancestor of Xiaoling, an old fox that's lived for a thousand years...
Of course, she couldn't say this out loud. Otherwise, the consequences would be severe.
"Oh? So now I've become a tiger?" Helan Yanting curled his lips into a teasing smile, raised his eyebrows, and glanced at Feng Yunshu. "So, in your eyes, Your Highness is never like a proper person, right?"
Oh, my goodness!
Feng Yunshu quickly shook her head. This was truly a "corporate - level misunderstanding"!
"No, no. Your Highness, it's very late. This concubine is a bit tired. Let's go back and rest quickly."
"Where does Your Highness's wife plan to rest? Back at the prime minister's mansion or back home?"
"Hmm? Back home?"
Feng Yunshu was stunned for a moment and quickly reacted. Looking at the serious - faced Helan Yanting, she tried hard to hold back her laughter, leaned in front of him, and raised her eyebrows with a smile.
"So, Your Highness, where does Your Highness hope this concubine will rest?"
Helan Yanting looked at the charming woman in front of him. The corners of his lips couldn't help but curl up. He reached out and pinched her slightly puffed - out cheeks. "Your Highness's wife is really a slippery one."
Feng Yunshu's face flushed instantly. She wanted to swat his hand away, but he grabbed her palm instead. "Your Highness's wife naturally has to go home with Your Highness to sleep."
"Who wants to go home and sleep with you..." Feng Yunshu pouted and mumbled her dissatisfaction in a low voice, but still allowed him to hold her hand as they walked towards the Helan Prince's Mansion together.
After returning to the mansion, Feng Yunshu opened the scroll and planned to find a special compartment to hang the scroll on the wall as a souvenir.
However, at this moment, Helan Yanting frowned slightly, stared intently at the scroll, and said, "Wife, let Your Highness take a look at this scroll."
Feng Yunshu looked at Helan Yanting in confusion, then handed the scroll in her hand over. "Your Highness, have you found something wrong with this scroll?"
Helan Yanting took the scroll, looked at it, and felt the side of the scroll. There was a thoughtful look on his face. "Sure enough..."
"Wife, this scroll has a hidden compartment."
"What?!" Feng Yunshu was shocked when she heard this. She quickly reached out to feel the scroll. Sure enough, she felt that the thickness of this part in the middle of the scroll was slightly different from other parts, with a slight bulge.
"This..." Feng Yunshu never expected that there was actually a hidden mystery inside!
Feng Yunshu instinctively felt for her short knife on her body and planned to cut open the hidden compartment. This was really a technical task because she had to avoid damaging the scroll as much as possible.
Helan Yanting was slightly surprised to see her so skillfully take out the dagger from her waist. "Wife, do you always carry it with you?"
Feng Yunshu nodded. "Yes. It's for self - defense. You can never be too careful. If it weren't for this short knife tonight, Ziyuan and I might have died at the hands of that spider spirit."
"That wouldn't happen."
Helan Yanting interrupted Feng Yunshu's assumption. "Your Highness won't let anything happen to you."
"But Your Highness can't watch over me all day long, can you?"
Helan Yanting was momentarily at a loss for words. Meanwhile, Feng Yunshu had already cut open the hidden compartment of the painting.
Unexpectedly, there was a thin silk handkerchief inside the compartment. There were a few lines of black characters written on the white thin silk.
Feng Yunshu carefully took out the silk handkerchief and read the words on it. Her expression gradually became solemn. By the end, she exerted so much strength that she almost crushed the silk handkerchief.
"Wife? What's written on this silk handkerchief?"
Feng Yunshu directly handed the silk handkerchief to Helan Yanting. "Your Highness, read it for yourself."
At this moment, Feng Yunshu only felt cold all over. Then, anger welled up from the bottom of her heart and burned crazily bit by bit.
This wasn't her emotion. To be precise, it was the residual emotion of the original owner. This emotion was so intense that Feng Yunshu once again felt that she couldn't control her body freely. Her fists clenched tightly, making a clicking sound, and there was a fierce killing intent in her eyes.
After Helan Yanting finished reading the small words on the silk handkerchief, he felt the change in Feng Yunshu's aura. Seeing that her expression was wrong, he immediately reached out and placed his hand on her shoulder. "Wife, calm down. Your Highness is here for everything."
"Your Highness, you've seen it! It's clearly written on this silk handkerchief. It was her, the first - lady of the prime minister's mansion, who killed my mother! My mother didn't have to die in childbirth. It was the first - lady who asked the midwife to give my mother poisonous anti - miscarriage medicine at the critical moment of her childbirth!"
Feng Yunshu couldn't control herself and roared. Her eyes were blood - red as if she was going to eat someone. Helan Yanting pursed his thin lips slightly, quickly struck Feng Yunshu on the back of her neck. Feng Yunshu felt a numbness in her body and then lost consciousness and fainted.
When Feng Yunshu fell, Helan Yanting immediately caught her, picked her up horizontally, and placed her on the bed. He took off her shoes and socks for her and covered her with the quilt.
"You immediately light an incense for calming the nerves in the room." Helan Yanting walked to the door of the room and instructed Zilan. "Watch over the princess carefully. If there's anything wrong, immediately inform Your Highness."
"Yes, Your Highness!"
Zilan quickly nodded and turned to walk into the room.
Helan Yanting looked at the silk handkerchief in his hand again. After a moment of silence, he clenched it in his palm and then turned around and strode towards the study.
"Yan Qi, how's the matter Your Highness asked you to investigate?"
"Reporting to Your Highness, there's news about the matter you instructed to investigate before."
"Before the princess married into the prince's mansion, she was constantly bullied both openly and secretly by the first - lady and the second - miss of the prime minister's mansion. At that time, the first - lady sent a maid to the princess's courtyard, claiming it was to serve the princess better. However, according to the investigation by your subordinate, this maid often stewed tonic soup for the princess after she arrived at the princess's courtyard."
At this point, Yan Qi paused slightly. "Moreover, this maid disappeared strangely when the princess got married. The maid's family didn't mention this matter either. It was as if no one cared about the maid's whereabouts."
Finally, Yan Qi's expression became even more serious. "As expected, this tonic soup should be the thing the first - lady used to poison the princess."
"You immediately give the order. You must find that missing maid from that year for Your Highness. Your Highness wants to see the person alive or find out the identity of the dead person, and find relevant witnesses who can prove her identity."
Yan Qi nodded. "Your Highness, this First - Lady Mu of the prime minister's mansion may not be an ordinary woman. During the investigation, our people also got a piece of information. Before Mu Rulan married Prime Minister Feng, she was the legitimate daughter of the Mu Mansion. However, her mother's background is very strange. It seems that she had contacts with people from the Miaojiang area."
"Miaojiang?"
Yan Qi nodded. "Yes. The Miaojiang lineage has rarely appeared in people's sight, especially within the city walls. There have almost never been any Miaojiang people. But as far as we know, Mu Rulan secretly contacted several Miaojiang people before. Your subordinate dares to guess that the poison in the princess's body is very likely a Miaojiang Gu poison!"
"More Miaojiang people? Oh, they really have big ambitions. After lying low for all these years, they've finally shown their true colors."
Helan Yanting turned his ring and called Yan Liu over. "Yan Liu, Your Highness has another task for you. Keep a close eye on the actions of this First - Lady Mu and the Mu family. Once you find that they have contacts with Miaojiang people, follow this lead and keep tracking. Your Highness wants to see what the Miaojiang people's intentions are."
"Your Highness, you were secretly attacked when you were young, and there's still Gu poison remaining in your body. If we can follow this lead and uncover the mastermind behind it, the Gu poison in your body will surely be cured!"