Chapter 845 The Trial Given by Xin Luan
The tea was slightly bitter with a sweet aftertaste and a refreshing fragrance.
When Lin ngya personally placed the cup of tea on Xin Luan’s desk, it was the best ti to drink it.
As the lid of the cup was lifted, a special fragrance slowly spread from the desk to the whole Xiannan Hall.
As Xin Luan drank the tea, its amazing flavor spread all over his mouth. Anyone who was an expert in tea would imdiately be astonished by the perfect flavor of the tea.
Lin ngya lowered her head, looking respectful and ek.
After Xin Luan drank the tea she made, his face seed to have softened a lot.
“Miss, you are really good at making tea. No wonder my sister trusts you so much,” he said in a way of having a chat.
After thinking for a while, Lin ngya answered softly, “I appreciate Mada does not mind my humble birth. You overpraise , reverend sir.”
She had to be extrely cautious when talking to this kind of big shots who tended to sound others out on their intentions rather than to get straight to the point.
Their unspoken ssages could be sensed, but could not be explained in words.
Although Lin ngya was not used to talking in this way, she obviously did not have the initiative now.
Xin Luan looked away after glancing at her for a short while.
Lin ngya did not dare to make eye contact with him. She would not have been afraid of his gaze in the past.
However, she and her uncle just reunited today, so she inevitably lost her composure.
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“Well, my sister has married into the imperial palace for many years and had a hard ti managing the imperial palace. You will make a great contribution by doing all you can to assist her,” Xin Luan said, advising her to do all she could to assist Mada Jingrou.
Lin ngya was certainly aware that he wanted her to do so unusual things for Mada Jingrou.
She lowered her head and answered respectfully and cautiously as before, “Okay, I got it.”
One of them was absorbed in the book in front of him and the tea on the desk.
The other was as gentle and ek as a diligent and cautious palace maid.
Xin Luan, who seed to be testing Lin ngya’s patience, cast a subtle glance at her from ti to ti and looked away subtly, as if he had ignored her.
Lin ngya stood there gravely with nothing else in her mind like a pine tree, listening to him turning the pages.
After the High Priest opened more than 20 pages, she finally heard him say, “You brought a chessboard. Although I like playing chess, no one plays the ga with . Do you know how to play chess?”
She blinked slightly. Playing chess was not difficult for her.
In recent days, she had made great progress in playing chess.
She said, “I just have a rough understanding of the ga, so I’m afraid I might let you down, reverend sir.”
“It doesn’t matter. The ga is just for fun anyway,” Xin Luan said.
The manservant had neatly placed the pieces on the chessboard.
Lin ngya knelt beside Xin Luan and fixed her eyes on the chessboard without looking at him.
She picked up a white piece with her right hand. Of course, she was aware the High Priest intended to let her move her piece first while trying to test her tactics.
They started a fight on the chessboard with black and white pieces.
Lin ngya was nervous at first and lost the decisive opportunity that was significant.
However, as soon as she concentrated on the ga, she slowly turned the situation around.
They were in a stalemate on the chessboard in front of them.
Xin Luan was increasingly aware the girl in front of him was not simple.
The fight between them seed to have co to an end.
However, Xin Luan showed a serious look, wondering what kind of person she was.
Her way of playing chess was quite strange, sotis magnificent and sotis ticulous.
She did not stick to one pattern and was unrestrained, as if playing a ga alone.
It made him uneasy.
Apart from anything else, although he also participated in the ga, he had an intuition that he was led by her will.
Her capability of holding him down in the ga was so terrifying that he felt fearful as if he could not get out of her control.
Everything was within her grasp. His thoughts, moves and way of playing chess were all seen through by her in the shortest amount of ti.
He had never had this feeling even in front of the Emperor.
He could tell it was a fear of the future, although it was not intense.
If the girl was not going to take his side, he should definitely get rid of her!
For the first ti, he showed a vicious look in his eyes.
But when he thought of his sister’s words, he had to hold it back, and it finally vanished in his eyes.
How could he forget that his nephew considered the girl even more important than his life?
If he could draw her over to his side, he would probably be able to bring the whole world under his domination!
“Reverend sir, you are smart. I’ve lost,” Lin ngya said.
Xin Luan eventually won the ga.
Lin ngya put down the piece in her hand and gradually suppressed her surging fighting will.
In fact, she liked playing chess very much. Every ti she played chess, she could try out so new moves.
However, at the sa ti, she was aware the chessboard was like a battlefield and people could expose their innate abilities in a seemingly simple ga.
Therefore, unless it was necessary, she just muddled through when playing chess with others.
But when she saw Xin Luan today, she knew that she must take it seriously.
He did all this to test her capabilities as well as to observe whether she was qualified to be trusted by him.
Now, he might have done half of his work.
“It’s alright, you may go back for now. In a few days, the Eldest Prince and the Ninth Prince are returning to the imperial palace, and you will be very busy. Take good care of Mada,” he said.
Lin ngya stood up and bowed respectfully before leaving the Xiannan Hall.
The manservant, who walked her out, turned around and walked inside after excusing himself.
Standing at the gate, Lin ngya cast a subtle glance at the gate of the Xiannan Hall. Since the High Priest took the initiative to ntion this, he was presumably about to take action.
Long Tianyu was returning to the Jin State in a few days, which ant the eting of venomous insects would soon co to an end.
Now, it was ti to put sothing into motion.
She couldn’t afford to waste even a little of the three years left.
As she expected, after returning to the Fengyu Court, she t Baisu, who had stayed outside for investigation these days.
Baisu was no longer as dejected as she had been when she went out. Her eyes lit up when she saw Lin ngya. It seed that she had gotten good news.
“Look at your joyful expression. Let guess, you found clues about your identity, right?” Lin ngya asked.
Baisu never expressed her emotions easily, but she couldn’t hide them in front of Lin ngya.
Nodding heavily, she pulled Lin ngya aside to sit down and whispered, “Miss, thanks to your idea, I got so useful information in the past few days. Although I haven’t found out my identity yet, I think you need to know sothing about the Divine Witch.”
Lin ngya raised her eyebrows. If Baisu hadn’t ntioned this, she would have almost forgotten the Divine Witch.
Baisu said, “I heard that more than a decade ago, the Divine Witch once claid to be ill and unable to rise from her sickbed. It was not until nearly a year later that she gradually got better. However, the doctor, who had treated her, disappeared after she recovered. Last ti, I heard you ntion the Divine Witch looked exactly like our sister Baizhi. Calculating the ti, I find the doctor disappeared at the ti when Baizhi was born. Do you think it possible that Baizhi is...”
After pondering for a while, Lin ngya found Baisu’s words made a lot of sense.
It was true that Baizhi was brought into the Lin’s Mansion as Lin ngya’s companion by Lin ngya’s father who claid that Baizhi’s parents died in her childhood.
If Baizhi was really the daughter of the Divine Witch, her background would be in line with what had happened more than a decade ago.
“Go and make a further investigation into the sudden disappearance of the doctor. I want to sound out the Divine Witch in person. If she is really Baizhi’s mother, we will be able to draw her over to Xiaoyu’s side and might be able to get so clues about your background,” Lin ngya said.
Baisu nodded heavily. She was not allowed to get close to the Divine Witch who was of a noble status, which would inevitably affect the result of her investigation.
Moreover, Baizhi was her good sister. It would be a good thing for Baizhi if they could find out her real identity.
Of course, they would not miss any opportunity. But after finding out Baizhi’s real identity, Lin ngya would let her make her choice whether to resu her relationship with her mother.
She could find out the truth, but she would respect their decisions and wishes.
“I’m going to arrange that. Miss, you should find a chance to get out of the imperial palace as soon as possible. I’m afraid it won’t be easy without young master’s help,” Baisu said.
Of course, she could secretly take Lin ngya out, but it was inconvenient to do so, and this trick could be seen through easily.
However, Lin ngya smiled, drew the jade token on her waist and said, “You co at the right ti. With this, I can get in and out of the imperial palace freely.”
Unexpectedly, Mada Jingrou’s token had quite an influence.
Baisu looked at it in surprise. After a heated discussion, they ca up with a plan.
Early next morning, an inconspicuous carriage left through the back door of the imperial palace.
With Mada Jingrou’s token, Lin ngya’s carriage just needed to go through a routine examination when she got in and out of the imperial palace.
This ti she went out with the simple excuse that she was going shopping in order to prepare for welcoming the princes who were returning.
This reason was not far-fetched anyhow.
Moreover, she would be able to muddle through by buying so things at random later.
Lin ngya and Baisu held back their excitent in the bumping carriage.
After they arrived at the store they chose after a discussion, Lin ngya asked the coachman to make sure to wait for them here and not to go anywhere else.
After that, they sneaked away in the na of selecting goods.
“Miss, is it really okay for you to visit the Divine Witch Shrine openly?” seeing Lin ngya dressed in a dusty pink gauze dress, Baisu asked in confusion.
Lin ngya, who couldn’t be more cautious when sneaking out, usually dressed differently or disguised.
Why did she go out openly today?
“It’s okay. If I really went there stealthily, the Divine Witch will probably not et ,” Lin ngya said.
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