Chapter 408 - Chapter 408: Chapter 408: The Speculations of Sisi and the Two (1/2)
Chapter 408: Chapter 408: The Speculations of Sisi and the Two
“Then what? Aren’t these all things from thirty years ago? What’s the use of talking about them?”
Liu Sisi urged him repeatedly.
Di Yelei chuckled disapprovingly: “The story hasn’t ended here. Although this woman named Lin Xiner was pregnant at the time, she gave birth to several children, but none of them are alive now. Even Lin Xiner herself died of a sudden illness sixteen years ago, and the cause of the illness is unknown.”
“What does this have to do with me?”
Liu Sisi thought for a moment and then asked. She felt that there was something strange about the matter, so she asked him to investigate, but she didn’t expect that after several days of investigation, all they brought back were these irrelevant old stories.
“And you, as it turns out, look remarkably similar to this woman named Lin Xiner.”
Di Yelei said this in a subtle way, raising his head to look at her for a moment, his mouth drawn into a thin, straight line.
That look made Liu Sisi instinctively lower her head to look at herself: “What do you mean by looking at me like that?”
“No, nothing…”
Di Yelei’s gaze was somewhat evasive.
Liu Sisi frowned: “You don’t mean to say… that the former Crown Prince… has something for me?”
She thought about it and then immediately denied it: “Impossible! I don’t think so. His gaze toward me was very kind, as if he was looking at someone else through me. If he really had such a dirty mind, there’s no way I wouldn’t have felt it.”
“I’m afraid it’s really hard to say. In theory, it shouldn’t be because of the age difference, but who knows about these things.”
Di Yelei still remembered the appearance of the old man, who was both strong and restrained, clearly no ordinary person. He just didn’t expect him to have such an identity.
However, it’s not certain that he might have regarded Sisi as a substitute for Lin Xiner.
“By the way, I’ve been looking closely at that painting for the last two days, and I haven’t found anything special.”
As Liu Sisi spoke, she took out the painting scroll that had originally hung in Xuan’er’s place, carefully spread it out, and carefully examined it: “Look! According to him, it’s this painting that made everyone see something. But when I looked closely, the seal on it didn’t seem to have anything special!”
Following along the painting scroll that Liu Sisi had spread out, Di Yelei looked carefully, but it just looked like an ordinary mountain full of maple trees, large swaths of bright red. He really couldn’t see anything special about it.
“Could it be because of this symbol?”
Liu Sisi pointed with her finger at an inconspicuous spot in the corner, where there was a pattern that looked like a broken maple leaf, and asked.
“This… shouldn’t it be a symbol? It’s a maple leaf, isn’t it?”
Di Yelei said this without much confidence.
Liu Sisi thought for a moment and shook her head: “No! Given the urgency of the assassins’ pursuit at the time, even if they had discovered this painting, it must have been easy to identify it as the former Crown Prince’s property. Otherwise, where would they have had the time to search for markings slowly?”
That’s a good point. The two of them stared at each other for a long time, nearly turning cross-eyed, but couldn’t find anything special about the item.
After a moment of eye contact, Liu Sisi could only roll up the painting scroll again and carefully store it away.
Just let it go if you can’t figure it out!
Many things in this world don’t have answers!
On the other side.
The snow had stopped at some point.
Inside the bamboo house deep in the Xiangfei Bamboo Forest, it was as warm as spring.
The candlelight flickered slightly, casting a tall figure on the window lattice with the character of happiness pasted on it. The owner of the shadow seemed particularly anxious, pacing back and forth in the bamboo house as if waiting for someone’s arrival.
“Master, I have something to report to you.”