Chapter 336: The Prince is Angry

Chapter 336

"Du, I went to see Sun Mammy tonight..."

"Oh?" Zhao Changdu's mouth corner raised a faint smile as he patiently and calmly listened to the little girl tell him about the trivial matters in the back courtyard of the mansion.

Gu Ying let out a dry laugh, "Sun Mammy told me some things about Madam Cheng and my mother from back then."

Hearing this, the man's face gradually darkened, "What did she say?"

Gu Ying sat up and looked at the man's face as dark as ink, and said firmly, "Du, my mother's death was caused by Cheng's machinations."

Zhao Changdu's brow furrowed.

Gu Ying thought for a moment before deciding to tell him everything that Sun Mammy had told her, word for word.

The moment she finished speaking, she could feel a terrifying aura emanating from the man, suffocating her.

Zhao Changdu was initially only frowning, but upon hearing the end, his eyes suddenly tightened, giving off a cold and sinister light. He let out a sarcastic laugh, sitting quietly on the couch, his eyes black and shining but also concealing turbulent waves.

His large hand was still clasped around Gu Ying's lower back. His voice was so low it was almost murderous, "What a Madam Cheng—"

Gu Ying could clearly feel the man's violently churning fury. She had no doubt that if she did not stop him in time, this man could immediately take up his sword and go to the Baomo Hall to behead Cheng.

Sensing the man's intention to put her down, Gu Ying immediately reached out her arms to hug his waist, "Du, calm down first!"

Zhao Changdu's fists were tightly clenched, the veins on the backs of his hands bulging. He lowered his eyes to look at the girl in his arms, his eyes bloodshot as he gritted his teeth and said in a muffled voice, "Don't stop me, I'm going to kill her."

The chill in his eyes made even Gu Ying, the person closest to him, shudder.

The man was extremely strong. He put her aside and was about to take up the long sword placed on the sword stand.

"Du, listen to me!"

Zhao Changdu tightened his eyes, his gaze sharp. "Who?"

Gu Ying shook her head. "I don't know. Sun Mammy said the person who came to see Cheng was in disguise with different clothes and wore a veil hat, so she couldn't tell who it was. But she was certain it was no ordinary person, but a well-bred noble lady with graceful manners, and she was also quite young. The noble ladies around Cheng's age back then would be about the same age as her now."

Zhao Changdu remained silent, his sword-like brows deeply knitted.

In a city as big as Bianjing, there was no shortage of noble ladies. But it wouldn't be too difficult to investigate and find a noble lady who had conflicts with or knew his mother.

Gu Ying tightly grasped his large hand, focusing her gaze. "After I came back, I kept thinking about this. Before becoming involved with Duke Guo, Cheng was merely a low-ranking official's daughter who had been demoted to the mean population registry. Later, she barely managed to start an affair with Duke Guo and fancifully thought about becoming the Duke's wife. Naturally she wanted to kill my mother. But with her status as a concubine back then, how did she contact the Duke's servants? How did she bribe my mother's people and have someone poison my mother without notice? These things seem easy but are very difficult in practice, since the Duke's residence was heavily guarded and my mother had so many people waiting on her. Avoiding all those people's eyes to slowly poison her would have been no easy feat."

Zhao Changdu's expression was cold and solemn. "What Ying means is that someone else was secretly helping Cheng."

Gu Ying's eyes lit up. "That's right!"

Zhao Changdu was no fool. When Gu Ying mentioned slow-acting poison, he had already realized there was a bigger hidden story.

He smiled sardonically, the corners of his mouth turned up. His fingertips kneaded the girl's delicate, boneless fingers as his tone became extremely cold and low, "I will have Huai An investigate this matter carefully."

Gu Ying curved her lips. "You can also send Su He a letter to ask about news from the Floating Cloud Building."

Zhao Changdu dangerously narrowed his long eyes, tacitly agreeing.

...

After Sun Mammy confessed, Gu Ying properly arranged for her to be taken care of in the woodshed with good food and drink.

The Crown Prince was in a bad mood, his expression as cold as frost when he went to the Spring Mountain Courtyard.

Gu Ying didn't dare let him go alone, always following him along, tightly clutching his big hand to keep him from being overwhelmed by hatred.

As for Cheng, ever since that rainy day she had shut herself in the Baomo Hall pretending to be sick. Apart from Duke Guo who could see her, she refused all other visitors.