"Master... how did she really burn that scripture?"
He had just thought this woman was not too stupid, but now that he thought about it, he realized he had been mistaken.
They had been some distance apart at the time, and Su Qiao had deliberately lowered her voice, so Xun Feng had not heard what she said.
"She burned it. Naturally, there was no need for it to exist." Ye Jinghua did not care in the slightest.
"Master, her mother is already dead. Can she really cure the poison in your body?"
Miss Su was clearly struggling just to take care of herself now.
Who knew?
Ye Jinghua lowered his eyes and looked at his unusually red fingernails without saying anything.
Xun Feng asked, "Then, Master, should we continue searching for Peach Blossom Valley?"
"Continue searching."
After a pause, he said, "Have someone follow that foolish boy. Find out what medicinal ingredients he wants and get them for him."
"Remember, don't arouse his suspicions."
That boy did not look clever, but he was actually quite perceptive.
He seemed somewhat straightforward by nature, yet he was much more tactful than his father, Prime Minister Su. At least he was not blindly loyal.
"Yes."
*
The next morning, in the Imperial Study.
"Your Majesty, everything we found is here. There really was once a maid named Li Xiaolian beside Prime Minister Su's wife. She later did climb into Prime Minister Su's bed, but Prime Minister Su drove her out of the prime minister's residence. After that, her whereabouts became unknown."
The secret guard presented the information he had gathered.
The Emperor took it from Eunuch Liu and quickly skimmed through it, falling into brief contemplation.
"According to our investigation, she later lived as a guest in a small wooden house on the