1238: Waiting by a Tree for a Rabbit-Who Was the Rabbit? (Part Two) [Please Vote for Monthly Tickets]

One of their own?

Qin Li had no idea when she had planted this person, let alone where.

Shen Tang saw his curiosity and took the initiative to explain. "You should remember this person. On the eve of the war with Gao Country, a grandfather and his granddaughter fled here from the Southwest Continent. They passed through Gao Country on their way into our territory. The granddaughter even said I had the 'Emperor's Aura.'"

That detail brought it back to Qin Li.

"I did hear other people mention them."

He remembered them vividly, partly because the girl had a rare pair of white eyes, but also because she had a keen eye and hit the nail on the head—his liege was the true Son of Heaven, born with the Emperor's Aura!

"It was her? I heard that the grandfather and granddaughter once set up a stall at the bridge and dam in the royal capital, reading faces and telling fortunes. Apparently, they were quite accurate." She could even predict the sex of unborn children: if she said a boy, it was a boy; if she said a girl, it was a girl. Quite a few officials from the Ministry of Rites had visited her stall.

Once, after a Court Session, Qi Shan had infuriated Qin Li.

The moment court was dismissed, Qin Li had wanted to find him and get his fortune told.

What did he want to know?

Naturally, how many years of life that Qi Yuanliang fellow had left!

He could count the days on his fingers, tear off pages of the almanac, and wait for Qi Shan to go to King Yama's Palace. It gave him something to look forward to for the rest of his life. Unfortunately, when he went, the stall at the bridge and