"The big bad guy?"
Jiang Yourning and Jiang Wanrong immediately exchanged a glance.
Hadn't everyone at the Azure Cloud Temple been secretly executed on the emperor's orders back then?
"Big bad guy stole a child!!! Master raised the child! Master is a really good person!!!"
The afternoon's events were still vivid in her mind, and for once, Jiang Yourning's brain hadn't crashed.
Holy moly, it all fits now! Her Majesty the Empress Dowager pulled a civet-cat-for-the-crown-prince switch, and Little Wukong was swapped out. So that child Zheng Wangba had was smuggled out by the bad guy this little thing is talking about.
Beside her, Jiang Wanrong's eyes widened.
The Empress Dowager had swapped a civet cat for the crown prince?
When had that happened?
Could it... have happened this afternoon, when Ningning was summoned away?
"Little thing, do you remember what the big bad guy looked like? Tell me clearly, and I'll let you eat in a bit."
Jiang Yourning looked at the parrot before her, her smile growing even friendlier.
"Ugly! Really ugly! Huge patterns on his hands! Scary!"
As though remembering something, the peach-faced lovebird couldn't help trembling, seemingly frightened.
Jiang Yourning's whole body jolted.
Shit, shit, shit! Case solved!
That bastard beside Zheng Wangba isn't just an accomplice of that bullshit marquis-he's actually from the Azure Cloud Temple too! Even my sister doesn't have that many secret identities. What gives him the right?
Just as she was thinking this, the peach-faced lovebird seemed to remember something else. It hopped onto Jiang Yourning's shoulder and spoke again:
"Azure Cloud Temple, secret passage! Secret passage! Imperial Palace!"
"Aaah! They're killing a bird! Killing a bird! Master, save me!!!"
This time, as though recalling something, the peach-faced lovebird was so frightened that it burrowed straight into Jiang Yourning's sleeve and