Peasant Woman is in Her Prime - C160

The heavy smell of the water in the Hall of Clear Brilliance made Jin Xiaolou feel sleepy. She took a deep breath and forced herself to focus, causing the Queen to smile awkwardly and change the topic, “Lang’er, you are already completely recovered, then you will have to consider getting married. You are not young anymore, and can’t live alone like this forever.”

“Empress Mother is really ambitious.” Gao Lang laughed coldly, “Third brother just left, the coffin hasn’t even been buried yet, and Empress Mother actually has the mood to arrange a marriage for me?”

The empress’s face turned ugly for a moment before she smiled gently like a loving mother treating a naughty child. She said softly, “Your third brother has always been looking forward to your marriage. If you can marry a good wife and give birth to a child, I can comfort him.”

“Empress Mother need not worry about me.” Gao Lang stood up, “We have already sat in the Clear Brilliance Palace for the time it takes to drink two cups of tea, motherly and filial, the people outside have seen enough, we will take what we need.”

She then bowed towards the empress. “This subject shall take his leave.”

Seeing Gao Lang walk away without caring about the empress’s expression, Jin Xiaolou quickly bowed to the empress and followed Gao Lang out of the palace.

After the two of them passed through the white jade wall, the empress suddenly flicked her hand and threw all the tea cups on the table onto the ground.

The porcelain cup shattered into pieces and the empress gritted her teeth as she said resentfully, “I am the empress, head of the imperial palace. Even the emperor has to see my face. In the end, you still want to take his wrath? ”

“Please calm your anger, Empress!” Sui Gu hurriedly stepped forward to caress the empress’s back. “Empress, don’t worry, the Seventh Prince is the emperor’s grudge. The more efforts he makes, the more the emperor will feel that it’s glaring.

“Hmph, that may not be so.” The empress was cold. “He’s been pretending to be a fool for twenty years. With his scheming mind and endurance, he’s no ordinary person. Do you think he’s a grasshopper that can’t fly? Who knows, he might turn out to be a venomous snake!”

“And that girl by his side.” The empress soothed her anger and slowly approached. “We’ve investigated the background and brazenly brought a nameless woman to the palace to see me. How audacious!”

“Yes.” Sui Gu immediately replied.

Just as she was about to leave, the empress stopped her again, “What has Honorable Yang been busy with these days? “I haven’t seen her for a few days. She brought little 12 days to play in my palace. Since the palace is so lonely, I wanted to see more of her children.”

“Yes.” Sui Gu nodded, bowed and left.

Jin Xiaolou followed Gao Lang out of the Clear Brilliance Hall, and not long after, they saw a palace gate that was tightly shut.

Behind the broken door, one could see that the once prosperous palace was now only left with ruins. The garden had become a world of plants, and wild flowers continued to climb all over the place. Instead, it had become the place where the vitality of this silent and lifeless palace stood out the most.

Gao Lang stopped outside the palace gates, raised his head and looked at the gold lacquer signboard.

“These three words were personally written by the Emperor.” Gao Lang was expressionless. “To put it another way, my mother is as beautiful and fragrant as pepper water, so virtuous and virtuous.”

Jin Xiaolou thought about Gao Lang’s past and felt his nose sour. “I believe your mother is definitely a person who is like capsicum and orchid.”

“How do you know?” Gao Lang lowered his head, his voice was slightly hoarse.

“Because you are such a person.” Jin Xiaolou gave a brilliant smile, “My son’s mother, you are currently as beautiful as jade. If your mother could see this, she would definitely be happy.”

Gao Lang took a deep breath and embraced Jin Xiaolou, “It was here that she was killed by the Emperor.”

Gao Lang’s gaze revealed a biting chill.

Behind this door, he had personally witnessed his mother, who was as red as a pepper, being buried in the blazing red light. At that time, he was still so young, and all he knew was fear. All he knew was sadness …

Jin Xiaolou turned around, and grabbed onto Gao Lang’s other hand that was by his side. She looked into Gao Lang’s eyes and said seriously: “We will take revenge, no matter who killed your mother, we will take revenge for her.”

Gao Lang hugged Jin Xiaolou tightly and nodded his head deeply.

“Yes, we will avenge our mother and third brother!” Gao Lang said, “Let’s go, it’s time to leave the palace.”

In a small alley not too far away from the Linlang Workshop, Jin Xiaolou pulled Gao Lang along as they moved forward. The alley was separated from Golden Ape Lane by a row of tile-roofed houses, and Jin Xiaolou could clearly see the people inside the golden alleyway on the other side.

Many of the people in the alleyway couldn’t afford the tickets and wanted to watch the Pill Cauldron’s performance. They would lean on the wall door by door, grab a handful of dried fruit and peanuts, and eat and read them as they did so.

Jin Xiaolou and Gao Lang did not come to watch a show. They stood under a willow tree with their hands together, and the pavilion behind the willow tree was Liusu Pavilion.

After Yu Su moved out of the crown prince’s mansion, he returned to the Liusu Pavilion as Jin Xiaolou and the others had expected.

The two guessed that if it was really Yu Su who had done this to the crown prince, then the murder weapon wouldn’t dare to be thrown away in the crown prince’s mansion. It would definitely be hidden carefully and left the mansion before finding a chance to throw it out.

Beside the willow tree, Chang An had already brought five people with him to guard there. They had gone to the crown prince’s mansion early in the morning to follow Yu Su all the way back.

Yu Su didn’t make any movements on the way, and currently, she had already been in the Liusu Pavilion for four hours. It was just past noon now and the Liusu Pavilion still wasn’t opened, so practically no one was in and out.

After waiting for a while, the Liusu Pavilion wooden door slowly opened halfway, and a man in gray robes walked out. He had a cloth wrapped tightly around his head, making it difficult to discern his gender, and after leaving the shop, he rushed towards the side of the river.

Gao Lang raised two of his fingers and hooked them, and Chang An immediately brought the five men to follow along.

The man in grey had just crossed to the river when he pulled off a bundle he was carrying and threw it into the river.

Chang An shouted, and the three men immediately went forward to push down the grey robed man, and Chang An led the other two and leapt into the river.

Jin Xiaolou immediately rushed towards the grey robed man, there was a trace of an undetectable fragrance, it was faint, deep and distant, Jin Xiaolou could tell with a single whiff, that it was a woman.

He took off the cloth that was wrapped around her, and sure enough, there was a beautiful woman’s face underneath.

“Yu Su.” Gao Lang said softly.

So she was actually Yu Su. Jin Xiaolou gazed upon Yu Su’s face. She was indeed a beauty.

Yu Su had her hands tied behind her back, and was placed at the side. However, her expression was normal as she stood there calmly without the slightest bit of panic, which actually surprised Jin Xiaolou.

Very quickly, Chang An woke up from the river, holding a yellow cloth bundle in his hands.

After eating the water, the bag looked a little heavy. Chang An threw it at Yu Su’s feet and a man walked over to take the bag away.

There were three round stones inside the bag. It seemed like Yu Su wanted to sink these stones into the water and never see the light of day again.

Other than the round stone, there was also a small metal box.

The man picked up the metal box and handed it over to Gao Lang.

Opening it, Jin Xiaolou’s heart jumped.

There was indeed a syringe in the box, but it was not as perfect as a modern syringe, yet it still looked extremely fine.

The syringe was made of silver and was covered with fine, thick patterns. The tip of the needle was half as thin as a sesame seed. The piston was made of wood, and there was a silver handle embedded in the wood.

Just as Jin Xiaolou picked up the syringe, she mocked: “Even if you find it, with just the few of you, you wouldn’t be able to figure out what it is.”

Jin Xiaolou held onto the silver handle and pushed it. The piston was extremely tight and would need a lot of strength to push it. Looking at the half-arm length of the syringe, if all the air was injected into the blood vessel, it would definitely be fatal.

“You guys are so smart, making such exquisite things, yet you don’t put your mind on the right path.” Jin Xiaolou let out a long sigh, “We should be saving them, but you guys just had to use it to harm others.”

Jin Xiaolou was at a loss, she did not think that in this era, there would actually be someone who could make needles, but no one had used the value of needles, if they could really use them, then who knew how much progress Great Zhou medicine would have, who knew how many lives would be lost, to be saved.

“Capture him and bring him back to the Rainbow Garden first.” Gao Lang said, “Take away the evidence, since we have already plundered the goods, we have plenty of time to interrogate them.”

“Wait!” Jin Xiaolou walked over, then approached Chang An and said, “Go to the Supreme Court and call someone over as a witness, in case we catch him and bring him back to Rainbow Garden. If Yu Su were to reverse the accusation, we wouldn’t be able to explain ourselves.”

“Lady Xiaolou has thought it through!” Chang An nodded and left.