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When they left the palace, Eunuch He was still the same as before, but after the meeting at the side palace, Eunuch He's attitude was clearly more respectful than before.

Qing You's Soft Palanquin walked to the east gate and changed the big palanquin with Ye Family.

The palanquin steadily went back to the Ye Mansion along the way it came.

The Old Ancestor Madame Chen leaned against the cushioned palanquin wall and closed her eyes for a short rest. After being treated by the Old Imperial Physician Hua and drinking the medicine, Jin Lan did not have any ailments done, only her expression was gloomy as she thought about everything that had happened in the palace while pretending to have a lowered head.

In the end, the Old Ancestor ordered for the emperor to send Li Yingluo out of the palace after hearing the news. When he heard that even the empress dowager had arrived, he was still unable to protect Li Yingluo. To Li Yingluo, who had grown up in the palace since childhood, this was simply a derogatory punishment! In the future, his reputation in the capital would decline by leaps and bounds.

As for the matter of her "offending" the Pingyang County Princess, it was also reported to the emperor by all the palace maids present. They didn't expect for the emperor to laugh loudly and say "good" three times in a row!

When Madame Chen heard this scene, she couldn't help but be dumbstruck.

She thought that even if Li Yingluo was punished, it would be bad if she was unable to escape. After all, she was only a commoner in the Imperial Family, even with the support of her ancestors, she would still be scolded. In the end, not only did the Emperor not get angry from Long Yan, he even rewarded her.

Jin Lan quietly glanced at the brocade box at the side, silently cursing in his heart. Just what did the emperor mean?

Although Madame Chen looked like she had her eyes closed, she had actually been squinting her eyes and observing Jin Lan's every move. Seeing her turn her head slightly, her murky eyes instantly flashed with a glint of light. "Girl Lan."

Jin Lan held his breath and quickly collected his thoughts. With a smile, he said, "Old Ancestor, Jin Lan is here."

Madame Chen looked down at Jin Lan's pleasing appearance, and thought about what had happened in the palace. She felt extremely satisfied. She was respectful and courteous, her movements gentle, her movements orderly; she was gentle when she should be strong but she was firm when she should be strong. Her conduct was even higher than she had expected, just that such a person was of a side bloodline.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel a sense of pity. If only Jin Yan had half as exquisite as this little girl, she wouldn't have to spend so much effort in devising such a detour.

Jin Lan sat upright, and although the Old Ancestor did not make a sound, she could feel a gaze roving back and forth on her body. She hid her thoughts even deeper, afraid that the Old Ancestor would catch her unawares.

After a long while, when the smile on her face was about to freeze, Madame Chen finally opened her mouth and said, "County Princess Ping Yang is Princess Mingxin's daughter."

Princess Mingxin? Jin Lan's heart trembled. If she remembered correctly, Princess Mingxin was the empress dowager's apple, and also the late emperor's only princess. In her previous life, she had met this Princess Ming Xin who had married into the Jing Yang Palace. Even though she was over thirty years old, she still had a bright and beautiful appearance.

However, this was not the main point. The main point was that Princess Ming Xin was very protective of her.

It was said that back then, someone from the Marquis Mansion had accidentally injured the third young master of the Jing Yang palace. Although it was a concubine, the third young master was raised under the name of Princess Mingxin. That night, Princess Ming Xin came knocking with a guard from the Duke's Palace, making Changping's Marquis Mansion restless. After that, she ruthlessly cut Changping's Marquis Mansion, and even if Imperial Concubine Ruan sobbed in front of the emperor, she only reprimanded him twice in the end.

And now she had offended Princess Ming Xin!?

Compared to Li Yingluo's confinement and exit from the palace, injuring the bastard was like a small matter, a huge slap on the faces of Princess Ming Xin and the Duke of Jingyang's Mansion!

Jin Lan immediately felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave, her entire body icy-cold. She did not know that Li Yingluo was the daughter of Princess Ming Xin, otherwise she would definitely have hidden far away and not even touched him.

Madame Chen took note of her pale face and faintly smiled in her heart. However, she closed his eyes and did not speak anymore.

The sedan immediately regained its calm.

Jin Lan bit his lips as he tried his best to stabilize his trembling hands. A complicated gaze flashed across the ancestor's face as he closed his eyes.

The Old Ancestor intentionally told her Li Yingluo's identity, it shouldn't be purely because he had good intentions, right?

The old ancestor definitely knew that Li Yingluo was in the palace, but before he entered the palace, he hadn't mentioned anything at all. In addition, Li Yingluo had gone back, and at the same time, found out her true identity.

Furthermore, the Emperor clearly didn't know that the Old Imperial Physician Hua wasn't in the palace. Otherwise, he wouldn't have let Roughpeak bring her to the Eastern Warm Pavilion. Could it be that the Old Imperial Physician Hua was deliberately being shunned by others as well?

Fourth Prince and Bai Yifei...

The more Jin Lan thought about it, the more shocked he became. It would be too much of a coincidence if there was no one to arrange this! Other than the Old Ancestor, she really couldn't think of a second person who could have done all of this without anyone noticing.

Just as the large palanquin was gradually approaching Marquis Runan' Mansion, carrying the slumbering Madame Chen and thinking about random things, there were also people inside the Hua-Yang palace whose expressions were grave and their writing fast.

Fourth Prince sat upright in front of his purple sandalwood desk, and wrote down everything that had happened today in great detail on his letter. In the end, he even added a little bit of Li Yingluo's weight to Princess Ming Xin's heart.

Putting down the strand of hair in his hand, he picked up the paper full of words and quickly scanned it with a serious expression. However, when his gaze came in contact with the three words "Ye Jinlan", he could not help but pause for a moment as a stubborn and unyielding face appeared in front of him.

A pair of eyes that were as clear as water, her face as white as early snow made her seem exceptionally spirited. Especially her slim but straight figure, which was like a plum blossom standing proudly in the snow, which made people unable to help themselves from praising her, making their hearts move …

Fourth Prince was stunned for a moment. He suddenly wadded up the letter in his hand, dipped his brush in the ink, and wrote another letter. After the ink had dried, he sealed it and snapped his fingers. A figure then appeared in the room.

"Send this letter to the Prince's estate." Fourth Prince flicked the letter back, and the figure immediately caught it, disappearing from the room as if it had never appeared before.

Returning to the Ye Mansion, Jin Lan first accompanied Madame Chen to the Longevity Hall. After sitting for a while, Madame Chen instructed the Mama Wu to prepare a warm sedan chair and personally send her back to the courtyard.

Wan Ju was anxiously waiting in front of the door. From time to time, she would glance at the door, and upon seeing a warm sedan slowly approaching, her eyes lit up, and happily shouted: "Miss is back!"

After she finished speaking, she ran over to welcome them. When the Mama Shang and Bi He heard the commotion, they hurriedly lifted up the curtains and stepped out the door.

"Miss, you're finally back." The warm sedan chair stopped at the end of the corridor. Wan Ju then raised the curtain of the sedan, and extended her hand carefully to support the warm sedan.

Mama Wu who was walking at the back walked forward, she glanced at Wan Ju, Mama Shang and Bi He who were standing in front of the door, and then said to Jin Lan with a smile: "Miss Jin Lan, I'm afraid I'm too tired today, the Old Ancestor wants you to rest early."

Was this to stop her from speaking nonsense?

A smile appeared on Jin Lan's face. "I'll have to trouble Mama to inform the Old Ancestor when we return. Jin Lan thanks the Old Ancestor for his concern."

Wan Ju and Bi He were both immersed in the joy of Jin Lan's safe return. Only the Mama Shang was able to carefully discover that Jin Lan wasn't wearing the same set of clothes he had worn this morning. His heart tightened, "Lady …"

"Mama, may I trouble you to make some ginger soup so that the Mama Wu and all the other Mama may warm their bodies?" Jin Lan's quick voice interrupted the Mama Shang, and at the same time, he shot her a look.

Mama Shang was enlightened. She nodded and was about to go to the small kitchen, but she was stopped by Mama Wu.

"There's no need, the Old Ancestor is still waiting for me, your servant, to attend to him. Your servant will take her leave now." Since he had already said what he needed to say, Mama Wu would not linger any longer.

"Mama, have a good trip." Jin Lan wished that she would leave earlier, so he naturally wouldn't keep her here. He got Mama Shang to send him off before he supported Wan Ju and Bi He into the room.

Once Bi He entered the room, she immediately reached out to take off Jin Lan's cape, only to realize that she was wearing a snow mink fur coat, not fox fur. Although the two were pure white, Bi He was in charge of clothing, how could she not recognize her?

She was immediately shocked, "Miss, this cloak, looks like …"

Jin Lan shot a glance at Bi He, then personally took care of the snow mink fox. As he said, he said: "Go and prepare a basin of hot water for me first, I want to wash my face."

Bi He knew that there was something fishy going on, so after thinking for a bit, she kneeled down and replied: "Yes."

When Bi He left, Jin Lan asked Wan Ju to open the box and take out a set of clothes, and quickly change out of his clothes. When Bi He returned, she was already on the warm bed, and the clothes she wore back from the palace were already properly packed as well, and she hid them in the rarely used box.

Jin Lan had cleaned up and the Mama Shang had returned. She casually found an excuse to send Wan Ju and Bi He back to their room before she told Mama Shang everything that had happened in the palace.

"Princess Ming Xin!?" When Mama Shang heard about Li Yingluo's identity, she could not help but exclaim out loud: "Why are you so silly, Miss!"

Jin Lan pursed his lips and smiled bitterly. If she had known beforehand, she wouldn't have met him head on. Now that she was already in such a situation, speaking any further would have been useless. However, even if she knew Li Yingluo's identity, she would not regret what happened today.

"This is going to be troublesome!" Mama Shang was so anxious that she paced back and forth in the room. After a while, her face turned pale and said to Jin Lan in a trembling voice, "Miss, Princess Ming Xin is usually rather generous and kind, but once she touches upon the bottom line, she will definitely take revenge!"

"Mama." Jin Lan took a deep breath, lifted his eyes, and looked fixedly at Mama Shang. "Things have already come to this point, I believe that the Old Ancestor would not sit idly by. What I am worried about is the thoughts of the old ancestor! "

She had thought things through on the way here. Since the Old Ancestor didn't back down even half a step in front of the empress dowager and the emperor, he definitely wouldn't allow Princess Mingxin to make things difficult for her. However, this matter had probably become a weakness of the old ancestor. If it was used on her, it would be better. She was a junior and might still be able to avoid a bit of ambiguity.