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Fortunately, Xi Mengyao was originally wearing male clothing and a mask. Hearing these words, he immediately turned around and hid his mask behind Lu Ming, pretending to be a servant as she slipped away into the garden.

Lu Ming was speechless when he saw her like this. However, he could not say anything at this time. He could only sigh.

After which, he turned to the butler and said, "I understand. I will explain this matter to the prince. Where is the prince?"

The butler whispered to him about a place that Xi Mengyao could not hear clearly. She originally had no interest in these things. If she wasn't curious about who caused the trouble at her side, she wouldn't have done such a thing on a whim.

She was secretly hiding at the side and was relieved when she saw that Lu Ming had left.

Ye Zichen thought to himself, luckily this person was rather loyal, so he didn't sell himself out.

When she came back, she had already told him that this matter was not that simple. If Prince Jing knew that the two of them were together, it would be very difficult to find a reasonable excuse.

Not when the time comes, but when it comes to many other things.

Thus, he might as well just keep it to himself and tell them what he knew. As for the rest of his speculations, he could hide them from them.

Since the other party had come prepared, he would not let go so quickly.

She didn't want the news of her sneaking out to be exposed either.

Lu Ming could see through her thoughts, that he still did not want to get involved with these matters, so he hid it not only to not cause trouble, but to pave the way for her to retreat later.

However, he did not expose her immediately. After all, this matter did not have much to do with her.

Once Xi Mengyao returned to the courtyard safely, she heaved a sigh of relief. She was just about to push open the door and enter, but when she looked down, she realized that there were people in the courtyard after she went out for a while.

However, this person was extremely careful, so much so that she didn't notice at first.

If not for the fact that she had left a piece of paper on the ground when she went back, she might not have cared about it at all.

After Xi Mengyao knew that someone had come, she pretended not to know.

He only walked around the house once.

Actually, was there anything in it? Originally, the so-called dowry that she brought with her was not much. Moreover, this time, when she was punished and moved here, there was almost only one person who came. Not to mention items, even some daily necessities were not enough.

She was also not interested in asking where her dowry was and just treat it as paying for the room.

After returning to her room, she only confirmed that she valued some books, weapons, and silver.

Seeing that there was nothing missing, Xi Mengyao became suspicious as well. She really did not know what those people were thinking …

She was confused, but quickly calmed down.

After she sorted things out, she took another look. Since there was nothing missing, it should be a lot.

However, he wasn't in a hurry either.

She knew that this matter was basically what Xi Mengge was doing behind the scenes.

In truth, it was also within reason.

However, Xi Mengyao didn't have any intentions of letting her off. Since this person had done it, then don't blame her for being ruthless. After all, even if the other party failed, it didn't mean that she would regret it.

She thought about it and stretched her back, preparing to have a good rest first. Then, she would come back to look for what exactly the other party had brought over.

However, at that moment, she suddenly felt that someone was looking at her! She turned around to look and saw that there was a pair of eyes behind the crack of the door.

His eyes were red, and he knew that he had not had a good rest.

However, logically speaking, she should not know such people.

She strangely stood up and pushed the door open to take a look. However, when the door opened, there was no one outside.

"Heh." Xi Mengyao sneered, and immediately understood.

She was in no hurry to leave. She lowered her head to take a closer look and noticed that some dust had been swept to the side of the door.

Judging by the angle, it should have been the skirt unintentionally sweeping out.

This was most likely a maid.

Fortunately, the people she served had all left. If there was no one to serve her, then naturally there would be no one to clean up. When she remembered, she would swing the broom twice. If she could not remember, the dust had accumulated to such an extent.

He didn't expect that stealing this little bit of laziness would give her some benefits.

She lowered her head and looked at the scattered dust marks on the ground before following them from the side.

This person had gone from the corridor all the way to the southeast corner of the courtyard. He had then jumped out from the spot where she had moved the stone.

There were still half a footprint there.

The front part of the footprint was only half the size of her palm, so it didn't look like an adult's footprint. However, the number of maidservants in the mansion was truly limited.

~ I wonder what Song Chongjing is thinking, other people's houses are filled with maids.

But the number of maids he had here was not little, but they were all familiar faces. Even someone like Xi Mengyao, who only went out to wander around twice, was almost able to recognize all of the servants in the house.

The only ones she didn't recognize were the half-blooded maid with a broken throat who had cried at her place last time, and the few 'informants' outside who had 'reported' her.

But those girls …

As she was feeling puzzled, she thought that she was about to come up with a conclusion. However, she suddenly heard a voice coming from outside the door. It sounded like someone was coming over!

Xi Mengyao, shocked, upon hearing it carefully, turned out to be Song Chongjing!

That person was never polite and directly walked over.

Although Xi Mengyao felt that it was strange, she couldn't think too much about it. She was still dressed in men's clothing, and now it was too late for her to change. After thinking for a moment, she could only take off her outer clothes.

"Who is it? It's so late at night!"

As she cursed, she pushed the door open.

Only then did Song Chongjing come over, upon seeing her like that, he immediately turned and snorted: "You! Why don't you hurry up and put on your clothes?

After Xi Mengyao heard this, she stuck out her tongue. She intentionally and unhurriedly put on her clothes, and then yawned and said: "Who allowed you to come in at this time? I did say that I never close the gates of the academy, but I never said that you could just casually walk in.

"I have something to tell you …" Song Chongjing was silent for a while, and when he saw that she had finished putting on his clothes, he shook his head.

He had brought the butler with him.

This time, he was suspicious in his heart. He did not know why, but Song Qian suddenly sent a trusted aide to inform him that Lu Ming was leading a person from the martial arts world to do some strange things.

There was a lot of provocation in his words.