mtl008 Chapter 552 What did Sheng Yunzhu do?
Chapter 552 What did Sheng Yunzhu do?
The last time Lu Yangyang heard Sheng Yunzhu's name was when she was chatting with Sheng Junyi in Jiangnan.
Sheng Junyi told her that Sheng Yunzhu had married into the Zheng State Duke's mansion, but Sheng Junyi never mentioned how she got married or what happened after she got married.
Lu Yangyang has almost never thought of this person again.
The feud between her and Sheng Yunzhu ended the moment Sheng Yunzhu brought trouble upon herself.
As she walked forward, she stopped caring about what would become of Sheng Yunzhu.
It's simply his own fault.
Therefore, she never connected Sheng Yunzhu to Sheng Yunjiao's disappearance.
Based on her understanding of Jiao Jiao, the fact that Jiao Jiao mentioned Yan Yue's name in the hastily left letter might be to leave a message that her disappearance was related to Yan Yue.
Before Lu Yangyang saw Hua Rui, the first person she suspected was the Crown Prince.
But what she could never guess was why the Crown Prince had Jiao Jiao kidnapped.
The Crown Prince is a master at stirring up trouble from behind the scenes. Every move he makes is useful to him. It's unlikely that someone like him would pay attention to someone who has nothing to do with what he's doing.
Why did they kidnap Jiaojiao?
When Hua Rui told her that when the Crown Prince asked her to do this, she should not cause unnecessary trouble and should try to keep it a secret, it meant that he did not want the matter to be exposed.
If the intention is to use Jiaojiao to threaten Yan Yue, then at least the matter needs to be blown out of proportion so that his bargaining power will be greater. It would be best to involve the Duke of Sheng's mansion as well, so that he can stir up trouble as he wishes.
But his order to Hua Rui was to try to keep the peace as much as possible.
This shows that Jiaojiao is a pawn to him, and he only needs to quietly take her away.
Even now, she still hasn't thought of Sheng Yunzhu.
But when she questioned Hua Rui about whether she had helped with the Bewitching Mandala, Hua Rui admitted it.
In a split second, a name popped into her mind: Sheng Yunzhu.
Whether in dreams or reality, in her eyes, Sheng Yunzhu always chased after the Third Prince, and the person she wholeheartedly wanted to marry and be with was always the Third Prince. No one would ever think of her as the First Prince.
She had never thought of it that way.
But now, going back and piecing together all the clues, first there was the Qinglian case. Sheng Yunzhu had a good relationship with the Fairy of Goodness, easily obtaining the Heart-Nourishing Pill from her, and even sending Yuanxing to Chunfang Tower as a servant out of anger. She suspected at the time that this wasn't a coincidence, but she couldn't make any connection. Secondly, there were her repeated assassination attempts, with no leads on the assassins. Then came the smallpox case in Yangguan City in the Northwest. The investigation ultimately ended with the Crown Prince, as if by some unseen force, the Crown Prince was always able to plan ahead.
She originally thought that the person behind Sheng Yunzhu was the Third Prince.
However, in several cases, the person ultimately found to be involved was not the Third Prince, but rather the First Prince, who had no presence at all.
Let's assume that His Highness also knows about Sheng Yunzhu's rebirth?
If Sheng Yunzhu had approached the Crown Prince from the beginning and told him the important things she knew, wouldn't all of this make sense?
Sheng Yunzhu's only purpose is to know things that others don't, things that might happen. Going back a bit further, in Sheng Yunzhu's previous life, these things happened in various forms, some of which were even related to the Crown Prince himself. When Sheng Yunzhu tells the Crown Prince what she knows, or when the Crown Prince subtly manipulates Sheng Yunzhu, given this backstory, will the Crown Prince be able to handle these things more perfectly and make better use of them for his own benefit?
The answer is obvious.
Sheng Yunzhu and the Third Prince were both too self-righteous, unaware that they had long been manipulated by the First Prince.
Let's go back to the matter of Jiaojiao being kidnapped.
If it was instigated by Sheng Yunzhu, or it was an exchange of benefits with His Highness, then it makes perfect sense!
Jiaojiao left the message that she was going to find Yan Yue, without knowing that Yan Yue was missing. She realized that her kidnapping was not simple and that her second uncle might not be able to find any clues, so she left the message asking him to find Yan Yue for help. She was trying to save herself!
What she didn't know was that Yan Yue had disappeared even earlier, and Jinzhou City was under martial law as a result, so her second uncle's messages couldn't get through at all!
Otherwise, as soon as Second Uncle finds Yan Yue, her claim that she was going to find Yan Yue will fall apart on its own!
When Lu Yangyang finished speaking and asked the shopkeeper to send a message to Sheng Junyi to inquire about Sheng Yunzhu's whereabouts, cold sweat had already seeped out from between her brows.
If Jiaojiao was indeed taken away by the Crown Prince to threaten Yan Yue, her life wouldn't be in danger for the time being. But if she fell into Sheng Yunzhu's hands, she didn't even dare to imagine what Sheng Yunzhu would do!
We must find her as soon as possible!
As Lu Yangyang watched the shopkeeper leave, she said to the waiter, "Could you please arrange a quiet courtyard for me, and as soon as possible?"
The waiter immediately replied, "Please come with me."
Lu Yangyang whistled to signal the carriage behind her. She followed the waiter through two alleys and arrived at the gate of a small courtyard. The waiter opened the gate and handed her the key: "This alley is surrounded by people from our business, so it's very safe."
Lu Yangyang took the key and had the two guards who had been following them at a distance bring Hua Rui in.
Lu Yangyang led Hua Rui into the courtyard and instructed the guards, "Go and invite your master here, but don't let anyone find out."
After the guards left, Lu Yangyang used a needle to wake Hua Rui. Hua Rui looked at Lu Yangyang and the unfamiliar environment, feeling somewhat dazed, as if she had lost her soul.
"Where is His Highness now?" Lu Yangyang asked.
Hua Rui was slightly taken aback, then shook her head: "I...I don't know. They're the ones who contact me. My sister...only came once last year."
"Did you know that the Crown Prince came to the southwest to find Little Fairy Doctor to treat his injured foot?"
Hua Rui nodded gently, "My sister told me, but... they don't seem to be that enthusiastic about Little Fairy Doctor. They just asked someone to inquire about her."
"In your Miao region, is there any way to cure his foot?" Lu Yangyang asked again.
Hua Rui remained silent for a moment, opened her lips as if she wanted to say something, but then lowered her eyes again.
Lu Yangyang stared at her and suddenly said, "You care a lot about the people at Huayuelou, don't you?"
Hua Rui was startled and said urgently, "What do you want to do? I'll accept whatever you want to do with me, just don't touch them, these things have nothing to do with them..."