Yang Zijin frowned. What a coincidence? Mammy Zhou died just at the time she got access to some useful information. Was it a coincidence or someone did it deliberately?

"Go ahead!" She said to Jiang Wei.

Yang Zijin thought it over and over in her room alone. She's been doing this under the table all the time, so maybe she didn't make any mistakes. What's more, Shuo Ling told her that he asked Mo Li to investigate this matter, and the clue always came to the end as he'd just found something. Could it be possible that there was someone else behind the curtain?

These days, Li Mingzi made trouble for her in the mansion. If Li Mingzi were the chief plotter, then who would support her?

She didn't believe that a Diary Noter (an official who records the Emperor's activities) had the guts to plot to murder a princess at the cost of him and his family's lives, only to make Li Mingzi into Duchess Mu, and let alone the chief murder left no evidence.

Yang Zijin thought about the possibility if the wire-puller was someone in the palace. Maybe something belonged to Princess Royal attracted others' covetousness!

What's more, why did Chushi Weiming tried again and again to have her?

Thinking of these, Yang Zijin came to know that this matter was far more complex than she thought.

So, what seized their notice?

It's necessary to go to see Madam Yang in the countryside and ask her whether there were other things when she picked her.

Yang Zijin let out a deep sigh!

After dinner, Duke of Mu asked Mu Qiu to the study.

Mu Yunong was about to leave while Li Mingzi called her, "Yunong, come with me. I have something to ask you!"

Then she got up and left.

They came into Li Mingzi's room. Li Mingzi was displeased, "What's wrong with you today? Why did you speak for an outsider?"

"Mother, she's a member of our family." Mu Yunong realized that she was too selfish to accept Yang Zijin, but after the case of poisoning, she found out that Yang Zijin didn't steal anything from her. She was worried about the troubles of her own imagining.

Hearing Mu Yunong's words, Li Mingzi came up to feel her forehead with one hand, "Yunong, what happened? Have you gotten a fever?"

"Mom, I didn't have a fever. I'm very healthy. I can see that sister is a nice girl. We thought so much about her before. Mom, please don't make her trouble from now on." Mu Yunong pushed Li Mingzi's hand.

Then she added, "Mom, if there's nothing else, I'm taking leave. Have a good rest, mom."

She left Li Mingzi's room.

Li Mingzi pulled a long face after Mu Yunong left. What's going on?

Yunong used to dislike her sister, but now it seemed that she changed.

What if Yang Zijin enchanted Yunong?

Li Mingzi was shocked by her thought. She blamed herself for didn't being cruel to Yang Zijin. She should have her killed the moment she found her! Then everything would be fine!

...

On the next day, Yang Zijin, who hadn't sleep last night, got up in the dawn. After dressing up, she went to the Blossoming Peach together with Jiang Wei.

As they walked to the backyard, they saw two kids chasing each other. It was Li Qing and Li Wen.

Li Qing and Li Wen saw Yang Zijin came and ran to her, "Sister, sister, you are here!"

"Qing, Wen, don't be so rude." When Li Dazhu and his wife went out of Xian's room, they heard the kids calling Yang Zijin.

Then they came up to Yang Zijin, "The kids are too young to learn etiquette. Please forgive their rudeness, Your Highness."

"That's alright. Are you going to leave?" Yang Zijin saw the parcel on Li Dazhu's shoulder.

Mrs. Li spoke with regret, "Your Highness, we've been troubling you for days. Now that Qing and Wen are recovered, we are going to leave."

"Since this is the case, I won't keep you then. Remember to pick them up to and from school on time." Yang Zijin touched Wen and Qing's foreheads.

Then she spoke to them, "Remember, listen to your parents. How to deal with things given by strangers?"

"I know, I know! I shouldn't accept things from strangers!" Qing and Wen said together.

Yang Zijin nodded, satisfied, " Then go home with your parents. Go to school on time!"

"I know! Goodbye, sister!" The two kids answered in one voice.

The Li Dazhu and his wife saluted Yang Zijin, "Your Highness, we're leaving."

Yang Zijin nodded with smile.

Wen and Qing ran to the door like ponies off reins.

Li Dazhu and his wife spoke loudly behind, "Slow down! Be careful!"

"Got it, mom. Come on!" Qing answered as she ran.

Watching this happy family, Yang Zijin was comforted.

After they left, Yang Zijin asked Jiang Wei to buy some food on the market. Then they went on the way to see Madam Yang.

The countryside Madam Yang lived in was close to Jing City. They arrived there within ten minutes.

Yang Zijin got off the carriage. When she pulled the gate open, she saw Qixi plowing the ground and planting vegetables behind the fence.

Yang Zijin let out a cough. Qixi lifted her head and saw Yang Zijin, so she put the hoe aside happily.

"Your... Your Highness, what brings you here? Madam Yang is missing you these days!" Qixi smiled at Yang Zijin.

Then she ran to the house and called, "Madam Yang, Madam Yang, come out! See who is here?"

"Why are you in such haste? Let me see who is coming." Madam Yang's voice came from inside the room.

She lifted the portiere to see Yang Zijin, and then a smile appeared on her face, "No wonder there were magpies chirping this morning. They gathered on the tree in front of our house and I could not drive them away. It turns out that Zijin is coming. It's great."

"Mom, how are you doing these days?" Yang Zijin came up to Madam Yang.

Madam Yang held her hands, "Let's talk inside."

"Qixi, go and get some tea!" Madam Yang said.

"Got it!" Qixi chuckled.

They came into the room. Madam Yang smiled at Yang Zijin, "My daughter is growing more and more beautiful!"

"Of course, I'm the most beautiful girl!" Yang Zijin replied proudly.

Madam Yang laughed as she heard, "Look, how proud you are! You are an infanta now, but you didn't get rid of these habits."

"I am an infanta, but I'm still your baby girl." Yang Zijin said as she walked behind Madam Yang to embrace her.

Madam Yang was comforted by her words. She patted Yang Zijin's hand on her chest, "Come to see me more if you have time. Now you are an infanta, while I'm an old madam. Others will doubt on our relationship if they see me coming to you.

"I know, mom. I'll come to see you at the beginning of every month." Yang Zijin promised to Madam Yang as she saw the sad look on Madam Yang's face.

Hearing Yang Zijin's promise, Madam Yang sniggered, "Fine, that's fine."

"Mom, I have something to ask you." Yang Zijin revealed the purpose of her coming here.

Madam Yang nodded, "Sure, go ahead."

"Mom, where did you pick me? Was there anything special with me?" Yang Zijin looked at Madam Yang.

Madam Yang slightly frowned and carefully retrospect. After all, it had been more than ten years ago from now.

After a while, Madam Yang lifted her head, "I had a distant relative in Shuyang, who was critically ill and sent a letter to me. At the invitation in the letter, I came to Shuyang. However, before I arrived, my relative died. Therefore, I set off the road back to Jing City after the funeral.

"Not long after I left Shuyang, I heard child's crying from a great distance. So, I asked the carter to go to have a look. We saw tens of people lying on the ground, and you in the center of a pool of blood. There was a noblewoman lying next to you, sheltering you with her hands. She moved her lips as if she wanted to tell me something as I got closer." Madam Yang took a sip of tea.

Yang Zijin was eager to know what happened next, "What did she say?"

"Then I got down, trying to figure out what she was speaking, but she was so weak that I couldn't catch anything clearly. I saw she clutched a piece of tatter in her hand. Maybe it was torn off from the bandit." Madam Yang searched her memory.

Yang Zijin frowned hard, "What else was there, but these?"

"I hurried to put you in the carriage and went away. Later, I found that there was a plate in your swaddling clothes!" Madam Yang continued.

Yang Zijin felt a little excited at this discovery. Maybe this was the clue left by her mother. Thinking of this, she hurriedly asked, "Did you keep all these things?"

Madam Yang nodded.

She stood up and went into the inner room. Yang Zijin got up and followed in.

Madam Yang took a key from the head of bed, and then turned to a big box. She opened the box with the key and took out a parcel.

"I've been keeping these things since then, for I thought you must come from a noble family, but I didn't expect you to be an infanta!" Madam Yang handed the parcel to Yang Zijin.

Yang Zijin took the parcel and opened it on the table. There was blood remained on the small quilt that wrapped her. It must be the blood of Princess Nanyang.

The little infanta went away with her, too. Otherwise, she wouldn't have the chance to live again.

Rest assured. Princess Royal. Since I owed you two, I would reveal the truth for you.

She put the quilt aside and saw the plate and that piece of tatter.

Yang Zijin picked up the plate to have a careful look. The plate was made of gold, on which there was an indistinct tiger.

Yang Zijin frowned. In ancient times, the pattern of the tiger was always associated with the military. Could it be the reason for Princess Royal's death?

Thinking of this, Yang Zijin picked up that piece of tatter to observe. It was not a piece of ordinary cloth, and after so many years, she could recognize that the cloth was very fine, which meant that the killing in that year wasn't done by bandits! The bandits were only scapegoats!

What's more, the Third Prince seized every chance to approach her, and pretended to get along well with her at the Spring Breeze. Was he the chief murderer of Prince Royal's case?

However, the Third Prince was still a kid that year. Could it be his mother? Imperial concubine Xiao didn't obtain this dispatch card, and found the infanta missing. That's why she kept looking for her secretly?

Then why did the Third Prince and Li Mingzi get so close? Was imperial concubine Xiao the one who Li Mingzi cooperated with?

No wonder it was conducted without leaving a trace.