sbdcsierra Chapter 551 Your Sisterly Love
Chapter 551 Your Sisterly Love
"What does Zong Ke want to use her for?"
Lu Yangyang couldn't quite understand it.
If Yan Yue's disappearance is related to the Crown Prince, and the Crown Prince has already captured Yan Yue, then it makes sense whether he uses Yan Yue to threaten Zong Que or directly kills Yan Yue to provoke conflict.
But he arrested Sheng Yunjiao, someone who had nothing to do with the power struggle he desired.
Even if they found out that Yan Yue and Sheng Yunjiao had corresponded, mistakenly believing that the two had some kind of affair, and wanted to use Sheng Yunjiao to threaten Yan Yue, what could they threaten him with?
First of all, the military power in the southwest is not in Yan Yue's hands, and Lord Yan has already been transferred. Even if Lord Yan were to exert his strength, the matter of military power would not be a simple matter.
Putting all that aside, given Yan Yue's personality, he is the kind of person who would rather die himself, would rather die for Sheng Yunjiao, than allow himself to compromise and hurt innocent people.
The move of kidnapping Sheng Yunjiao was truly unexpected.
When Hua Rui heard her words, she replied irrelevantly, "She must be very important to you, but for me, in this world, my sister is the only one I have..."
Lu Yangyang plunged the silver needle into her forehead: "If you move even slightly, you will die immediately."
“You…” Hua Rui realized that she seemed completely unable to keep up with this girl’s train of thought.
"I have no interest in your sisterly affection, and you don't need to try to tell me stories. You're willing to sacrifice innocent people for your so-called sisterly affection, but I think you're nothing but rotten to the core, yet you still try to find an excuse to pretend. It's disgusting." Lu Yangyang said mercilessly, "Stop talking nonsense and answer me, what exactly does Zong Ke want to use her for?"
"I...I don't know. He just told me to find a way to kidnap Miss Sheng so that no one would notice and cause unnecessary trouble." Hua Rui felt as if she had been pricked by a needle, a faint, imperceptible pain rising in her heart.
Lu Yangyang: "What's the story behind that letter?"
“That letter was written by Miss Sheng when she woke up that night, just in case. She asked me if she would die, and I said I didn’t know. Perhaps she guessed something, and in her haste, she left that letter. After reading it and finding no problems, I asked someone to secretly place the letter at the prefect’s residence,” Hua Rui replied.
She paused for a moment, and seeing that Lu Yangyang did not speak, she continued, "After I finished this, I could have left... He promised me that after I finished this, I could go to his side and be with my sister, inseparable. I delayed leaving on the grounds that I was worried about arousing the suspicion of the prefect."
"You can kill me, you can do anything to me... but could you... please don't involve Huayuelou?" Huarui's eyes welled up with tears, and her voice trembled slightly.
"I've already told you everything I know."
"Do you know about the Bewitching Mandala?" Lu Yangyang suddenly asked.
"What?" Hua Rui exclaimed in surprise, "How do you know this?"
"You said Xueyan asked someone to find you before, was it because of this medicine?"
"You..." Hua Rui was shocked for a moment, and became even more curious about Lu Yangyang's identity: "Who exactly are you?"
"Three years ago, a major case occurred in the capital. Someone was using children's brains to make elixirs that could make people radiant in a short time, which made them all the rage in the capital and extremely rare. Later, after investigation, it was discovered that the main ingredient of the elixir was a drug called 'Bewitching Mandala,' which was said to come from the dense forests of the southwest. Following this clue, the only person connected to the southwest was Xueyan, a palace maid serving the Crown Prince. However, at that time, all the clues ended at the source of this drug. If I'm not mistaken, you helped me obtain this drug back then, right?" At that time, the case was temporarily closed because the clues about the source of the drug ran out and there was no evidence to prove that the drug came from Xueyan.
However, on several later occasions, poisons with similar properties to this drug were also found on the bodies of the assassins.
This is enough to prove that the person behind this matter is inextricably linked to His Highness.
At the time, I didn't think much about how Xueyan, who had spent most of her life in the palace, could find such a potent poison that grew in the dense forests of the southwest. But now that I've seen the flower stamen, it all makes sense.
Although Hua Rui had wandered to brothels several times, she had spent many years in the southwest region and, being from Miao territory, was naturally more familiar with it than Xue Yan.
"What, what did you say?" Hua Rui's voice trembled and could barely form a coherent sentence.
Lu Yangyang only asked her, "Did you help her?"
Hua Rui's mind went blank, and she involuntarily uttered, "...It's me."
"What a great sisterly bond," Lu Yangyang sneered.
Then he released the flower bud, clapped his hands, and the two guards who had come with Lu Yangyang quickly entered the room, looking at Lu Yangyang nervously, "Young Master?"
Lu Yangyang quickly inserted another needle into Hua Rui's neck, then pulled out the needle from her forehead: "Find an excuse, without letting anyone find out that she is no longer at Hua Yue Lou, and quietly take her to Tian Cheng Trading Company, without letting anyone find out."
One of the guards asked in surprise, "Aren't you taking him back to the government office?"
"There might be spies in the government office, just in case." Lu Yangyang originally wanted to bring the person back to the government office first, but Hua Rui was able to have someone put the letter back to the government office quietly, which shows that there must be spies inside the government office.
Given Zong Ke's eccentric personality, whatever his purpose in kidnapping Sheng Yunjiao, he would definitely have left spies in the government office to keep an eye on his second uncle's actions.
The guards hurriedly responded and stepped forward to take the flower stamen away.
Hua Rui's eyes were now filled with despair. She let the two guards pull her away, and finally looked at Lu Yangyang: "My affairs have nothing to do with Hua Yue Lou."
Lu Yangyang replied calmly, "I will not implicate innocent people for the sake of my sisterly affection."
Hua Rui closed her eyes in despair.
After the two took Hua Rui away, Lu Yangyang stood in the room, suddenly remembered something, her eyes widened, and she quickly followed them out.
She avoided everyone's gaze, left Huayue Tower, and headed straight for Tiancheng Trading Company.
At this time, Tiancheng Trading Company had already closed. Lu Yangyang went around to the backyard and knocked for a long time before finally waking the shop assistant. The shop assistant looked at Lu Yangyang in confusion: "Young master, who are you looking for?"
"I'm looking for your manager," Lu Yangyang said.
The waiter hesitated for a moment, but Lu Yangyang took out the token directly. The waiter immediately cupped his hands in greeting and said, "Please come with me."
Lu Yangyang followed him into the backyard. A short while later, the shopkeeper rushed over. "Greetings, young lady. What are your orders?"
"Have someone pass a message to Young Master Junyi, asking him to help me find out where Sheng Yunzhu, the third daughter of the Duke of Sheng's mansion in the capital, is now?"