“Teacher Dongfang, there is someone from the palace, he is waiting for you outside.” It was the maidservant’s first time to see a eunuch from the palace. Because of curiosity, she looked at him twice. The eunuch scolded her and she ran back inside in fright.
Dongfang Mu frowned. He doesn’t want to join in the excitement in the palace. But the emperor seemed to know where he was.
“Wan’er, you wait first. When I go back, we will go.”
Dongfang Wan nodded her head: “Mmm.”
When Dongfang Mu came out of his daughter’s room, he saw Eunuch De standing with two young eunuchs in the courtyard. He asked: “Is there something wrong?”
Eunuch De hurriedly put a smile on his face and said: “Teacher Dongfang, you are indeed here. The emperor had guessed it.”
Dongfang Mu said: “I have no time to chat with him today. Tell him, let’s do that another day.”
Eunuch De said: “Teacher Dongfang, the emperor has something urgent to discuss with you. You should go.”
Dongfang Mu asked: “What the matter? What is there to discuss with me? I am not one of his men.”
Eunuch De walked closer to Dongfang Mu and whispered a few words. Dongfang Mu’s complexion drastically changed and hurriedly said: “Let’s go and enter the palace now.”
*
Dongfang Mu rushed to the Imperial Study Room. When he got inside, he saw Housekeeper Sun also came and handing a black velvet box to the emperor.
When the Emperor saw Dongfang Mu arrived, he waved his hand at him.
Dongfang Mu didn’t try to be polite. He walked straight towards the Emperor. He watched the emperor opened the black velvet box. Inside the box, there was the jade pendant he had given to the emperor.
“Isn’t this Prince Jin?” Dongfang Mu asked.
The emperor nodded his head and then took the red velvet box on the side and opened it, revealing an almost identical jade pendant.
Dongfang Mu took the two jade pendants. The more he looked at them, the more he got excited: “Yes, yes, this is the jade pendant of my poor granddaughter. How did it get here? Didn’t Pei Qinghan say he buried it with the child?”
The Emperor replied: “That was the problem here. If it was buried with the child, this thing will not appear here.”
The Pei family was famous. It’s influenced that has been going on for 200 years was passed to Pei Qinghan. The ancestral mausoleum of the Pei family has been guarding by the assigned people. The tomb robbers can’t enter it. So how did this jade pendant came out from there? Did they bury the child?
Why did Pei Qinghan tell such a lie?
The Emperor asked Dongfang Mu: “Have you seen that child?”
Dongfang Mu shook his head: “I was in Qiyun Mountain at that time. When I learned about what happened, the child had already been buried. I failed to see it.”
The Emperor said with a deep voice: “Wan’er was also ill at the time. So to say, only Pei Qinghan knew about this matter? Why did he lie? Is there something else that happened to the child at that time?”
Dongfang Mu gritted his teeth, as his anger fired up: “This, I will go and find Pei Qinghan.”
The emperor hurriedly got up and stopped him. He anxiously said: “What’s the hurry? I don’t think this matter is that simple. I’ve already sent someone to check it. There should be a result soon. Now is not the time to startle the snake.”
Dongfang Mu suddenly had an idea and asked anxiously: “Do you think that child didn’t die? Could she be still alive?”
The Emperor shook his head: “It’s hard to say. Let’s check it first and then talk about it.”
Dongfang Mu turned to leave. The emperor grabbed him and said: “Where are you going?”
Dongfang Mu replied: “I’m going to Pei Qinghan.”
The Emperor became anxious: “Didn’t I just said not to startle the snake? Let’s secretly investigate it first. So that if by chance that child is still alive, she won’t fall into danger again. ”
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