Chapter 500 - 154: Searching for Medicine_3
Princess Yongning thought of this and stood up, "I’m going to Prince Cheng’s Mansion."
Mei Xiang hurriedly followed her.
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Tonger returned in the afternoon, while Bai Xue didn’t come back until the evening. The two maidservants left the residence one after another, which might arouse suspicion, so they said they were going out to buy things their young lady needed.
Once they were back in the courtyard, Tonger carefully locked the doors and windows and said, "My lady, everything went smoothly. Mr. Xiao really did as you had predicted. When he heard what the bystanders were saying, he immediately returned to his residence and didn’t come out again. I was hiding in a dark place and saw a servant girl from his residence go out to find a doctor to prescribe medicine, as it seemed Mr. Xiao had caught a chill."
Jiang Li smiled and said, "You did very well."
She had asked Tonger to bribe a few unfamiliar townspeople to play "Guanshan Yue" at a spot Mr. Xiao Deyin was bound to pass by and then have someone pretend to have a casual conversation that Xiao Deyin would overhear. With a guilty conscience, Xiao Deyin would naturally be both alarmed and afraid, exposing his true colors. To drive a wedge between Xiao Deyin and Princess Yongning, she first had to make her collapse.
However, now that she was piecing together that Xiao Deyin indeed played a part in her previous life’s death, Jiang Li still felt something indescribable. After all, she believed she had done nothing wrong to Xiao Deyin. Merely to covet the title of the first zither master, to strike at a friend lethally, Xiao Deyin was indeed callous. Moreover, for Xue Fangfei herself, she had never thought about competing for any title.
Although Tonger did as Jiang Li had instructed, she was somewhat puzzled. There didn’t seem to be any feud between Jiang Li and Xiao Deyin, so she asked, "My lady, why do you do this? Has Mr. Xiao done something?"
"She once harmed a person," Jiang Li said, "What I’m doing is simply helping her remember the sins she has committed. Otherwise, over time, she herself would forget, thinking she has led a pure and good life under clear skies and a bright moon."
Tonger was surprised, "Mr. Xiao has harmed someone?! That really doesn’t seem apparent!"