Chapter 186 Third Prince’s Suspicion (1/2)

Following Lanning’s finger, Ning Xueyan saw another man appeared in the Graceful Moon Pavilion after Xia Yuhang had just left. From behind, he looked quite similar like Xia Yuhang, and at first glance, they looked about the same height, the same size, and even the same standing posture!

If she had not been too familiar with Xia Yuhang in her last life, Ning Xueyan must have mistaken that man for Xia Yuhang.

A cold smile appeared on her pale lips. “Ning Qingshan is really a vicious woman! In order to get rid of me, she has tried every means!” she thought.

“It must be because Xia Yuhang happened walked into the pavilion, that man did not show up just now. That man must be hiding somewhere nearby, so I would have been found out if I showed my face in the pavilion,” Ning Xueyan thought. She was sure that there was something odd about that yard behind the wall. Xia Yuhang had just gotten down the artificial hill and gone to that yard.

She recalled the road she had passed. After having walking out of the Plum Garden, she had turned to a corner, and then gone straight here, so this place was not far from Plum Garden.

The party was held at the Plum Garden today. This place looked closer than the male guest seats. Since Xia Yuhang had been able to enter that yard, it meant the yard was opened to the public today, and there must be some noble childes hanging out inside who was not at the party now. Where the pavilion was located was higher than the wall, so everyone in the yard could see her clearly if she went to the pavilion.

Once she appeared in the Graceful Moon Pavilion with a man, plus the note in her hands, she would not be able to explain it clearly. Ning Xueyan was even sure that the man also had a note in his hand, with her name on.

Ning Qingshan was so vicious that she wanted to kill her at one move!

“Lanning, go over there and throw it onto the floor when nobody is paying attention,” Ning Xueyan looked around and ordered with coldness in her eyes, pointing to another corner.

There were many palace maids bustling around to serve fruits to the guests and some young male servants passed there occasionally, so it should be an exit.

She rubbed the note again and handed it to Lanning. Then she moved back behind the tree and looked at the man in the pavilion coldly. It was not someone she knew, so she could not tell who it was.

Lanning looked at the corner and immediately understood her master’s intention. She took the note from Ning Xueyan’s hand and walked toward the exit of the Plum Garden.

She walked around the corner for a while and then dropped the note quietly on the ground in a more conspicuous position. Without stopping, she turned a corner and walked back.

The whole process only took a short moment, and the palace maids were busy serving the guests, so none of them had noticed Lanning’s appearance.

Several palace maids were walking toward the Plum Garden with some fruit trays in their hands. Suddenly, one of them stopped and kicked a crumpled note beside her feet. She asked another palace maid beside her surprisingly, “Hey! Did you drop your stuff?”

“No. It’s not mine.” The other palace maid looked at it and shook her head.

“What’s that?” Several palace maids nearby heard about it and came closer to check. When they found it was a note, they all shook their heads to show that it was not theirs.

“What did it say? Let’s check it!” a palace maid suggested out of curiosity.

The palace maid who had found the note handed the fruit tray in her hands to another palace maid, and squat down to pick up the crumpled note. When she opened it, she could not help exclaiming.

It immediately aroused many people’s attention. Even some young male servants who passed by here stopped, wondering what had happened to these palace maids.

“Third Young Lady of the Nings? The words look like they were written by a man.” Although the note was crumpled and there were several marks on the name, after spreading it, they could distinguish the words on it.

“Which Third Young Lady? It can’t be Third Young Lady of the Lord Protector’s Manor, can it? Let me take a look.” Some palace maids had seen Ning Qingshan at the party just now. They could not believe that such a gentle and elegant person would do such disgraceful and immoral affairs.

“Why it can’t be her? Look! It’s clearly indicated ‘Third Young Lady of the Nings’, and that person asked her to meet him at the Graceful Moon Pavilion. How can a noble Young Lady like her be so shameless!” The palace maid who had found the note muttered. In case of the others not believe her, she passed the note to another palace maid.

“Graceful Moon Pavilion? Is that the pavilion opposite us?” A palace maid who stood behind them had not seen the note yet, but she had heard what they said. She blinked and suddenly her eyes began to shine. She remembered that the pavilion was just opposite them, so she reached out and pointed in the direction of Graceful Moon Pavilion.

She was so surprised that she spoke loudly. Many people looked in the direction of the Graceful Moon Pavilion along with her gaze. It was not far from here, and they even could see clearly a man in the pavilion. He stood there with his hand clasped behind his back and kept looking around, as if he was waiting for someone anxiously.

They noticed that the place he was watching was the entrance of the Plum Garden, which was closest to the female guest seats.

It was true that he was waiting for Third Young Lady. They were too… shameless!

“It’s said Third Young Lady of Nings has gone to Honored Consort Ya’s palace just now. Could you be mistaken? It might not be her,” someone protested.

“Hearing what you said, I’m more confident that it must be her. It can’t be wrong. Maybe she dropped the note when she passed by here. She might have walked out of the Plum Garden by this way.”