Chapter 645 - A Secret, What Was Shopkeeper Xing Hiding (2/2)

As Mo Xuetong insisted, Shopkeeper Xing did not send her to the door.

After the few of them boarded the horse carriage outside, the carriage headed slowly to King Xuan’s Manor. Mo Xuetong leaned against the wall of the horse carriage and there was a hint of coldness in her eyes. She reached out to touch her forehead and moved back so that she could lean against the cus.h.i.+on behind her more comfortably.

Mo Lan handed over another cus.h.i.+on and asked uncertainly, “My Lady, Shopkeeper Xing and his people have been fine for so many years. Will there be someone who keeps an eye on them now?”

“Mo Lan, do you think such a thing will happen? Someone didn’t find out what they had done before, but now the person has a clue and thus begins tracking it down?” Mo Xuetong closed her eyes and asked after thinking for a while.

“I don’t think so. If there was a clue, those people would have found it a long time ago. Since others have never found the clue for so many years, it’s impossible for it to be found now. According to what Shopkeeper Xing said, those people have been specially coming to the shop for a long time. If they are almost confirmed, how could they just wait without doing anything?”

Mo Lan looked at Mo Xuetong’s obviously tired face and said gently.

Mo Xuetong did not open her eyes. She carefully thought over Mo Lan’s words. Mo Lan didn’t completely speak what she meant. However, after thinking about it for a while, Mo Xuetong figured it out. If those people came really because of what happened back then, then the Emperor was the mastermind behind the scenes. If the Emperor suspected someone and wanted to kill him, did he need a reason? So what if it was a false charge? They would not have investigated for a few days and would have caught those secret guards!

Judging by their behaviors, those were not Emperor Zongwen’s people!

There was another possibility—they were Yan Yue’s enemies he met when he was out on a mission. However, there was also a problem. After they discovered their enemies and also had unimpeachable proof, who would seek evidence instead of directly taking action? From this point of view, they didn’t become enemies when Yan Yue was a killer.

Then the ident.i.ty of this group of people was rather suspicious!

Shopkeeper Xing put forward this matter so seriously. If it was not true, could it be false? But if it was false, then Shopkeeper Xing’s purpose was suspicious. What was he hiding? Or maybe he was trying to find out something. When Mo Xuetong went in, it happened that Princess Royal had just come out.

However, Shopkeeper Xing did not mention Princess Royal at all. Could there be any mystery behind this?

As if something had flashed through her mind, Mo Xuetong slowly opened her watery eyes. “Mo Lan, do you think that Shopkeeper Xing has no idea that Princess Royal has appeared in the shop?”

“Shopkeeper Xing should know Princess Royal…” Mo Lan and the others all knew about these things as Mo Xuetong did not hide it from them. Hence, Mo Lan thought for a moment and said hesitantly, but what she said next was smooth. “Shopkeeper Xing and the others are secret guards, and they were selected by the princesses in King Jin’s Manor back then. They definitely know the young princesses of King Jin’s Manor. As I see it, Shopkeeper Xing knows Princess Royal.”

An accident happened to King Jin’s Manor and then the princesses disappeared with their secret guards. It seemed that there was not much connection between them, especially when Princess Royal had survived because she was the daughter of the late Emperor. She had nothing to do with Luo Xia. Was it true? When she was a child, Princess Royal had a good relations.h.i.+p with Mo Xuetong’s mother.

Later, the two gradually understood their relations.h.i.+p. Hadn’t their secret guards met? If they had met before, then it was impossible that Shopkeeper Xing didn’t know Princess Royal. If they knew each other, then why did Shopkeeper Xing lie to Mo Xuetong today? What did he want to do?

Mo Xuetong had clearly seen that Princess Royal was inside and then went out. She had also smelled the fragrance from Princess Royal in the private room. Princess Royal was not in good health, so there was even a herbal scent in the fragrance, which Mo Xuetong had never smelled from another person. Furthermore, the other private rooms were occupied at that time, but why was that private room empty? Shopkeeper Xing would not know that she was coming.

The only reason was that there was someone in this private room before they came. It was just that the person had just left when they arrived, so that private room was empty!

What was the secret between Shopkeeper Xing and Princess Royal?

Princess Royal had secretly appeared in her shop and had left mysteriously. Shopkeeper Xing had not only hidden the whole matter from her, but had also deliberately changed the topic. How could there be nothing wrong with it? Furthermore, it would not be a small matter for Princess Royal to come even if she was ill.

However, Mo Xuetong could not figure out what was going on for the moment.

“My Lady, would you like to ask His Highness about it later?” Mo Yu suggested.

“His Highness is busy these few days. Let’s wait and see.” Mo Xuetong waved her hand and rejected her suggestion directly. Even though Feng Yuran looked calm on the surface, he was not. Mo Xuetong did not know how much he knew about what the He family had done. Even though he pretended that he did not care about anything, Mo Xuetong knew that he was suppressing his anger. As such, she did not want to bother him at this point.

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