My Wife is Unbeatable in the Whole World, Touch Me If You Dare!-Chapter 228 - 124 Eastern Palace Curse

When leaving Huang Mansion, Phoenix couldn’t move due to dizziness from the sight of blood and weakness in her legs.

Li Anning carried Phoenix on her back, feeling two soft, resilient pressures from behind, which were surprisingly comfortable.

As she crossed the threshold, she even intentionally jostled her a bit.

The sensation of pressure was intermittent, amusing in its comfort.

This made her suddenly freeze, realizing something.

When Li Nuo carried her, did he also experience this feeling?

Li Anning’s steps halted abruptly, and Li Nuo, who was following close behind, nearly bumped into Phoenix’s pert bottom.

He asked in surprise, "What’s the matter?"

Li Anning said, "A bit heavy, need a break."

Phoenix, lying on her back, slightly changed her expression.

Heavy?

What did she know?

Was this called heavy? Song Jiaren and the nightingale both were very light, did she really want to end up like them?

However, Li Nuo thought it was quite normal.

Heavy?

That’s just right.

With a height over 170 centimeters and a curvaceous body, how could her weight be light?

She herself probably wasn’t much lighter than Phoenix.

After lifting Phoenix onto the carriage, Li Anning breathed a sigh of relief, looking as though a weight had been lifted off her shoulders.

Phoenix sat in the carriage, rolling her eyes inwardly to death, but said somewhat embarrassed on the surface, "Thank you for your trouble, Your Highness."

Li Anning waved her hand and said, "It’s nothing, last time you also helped us out."

Her makeup on the first day was done by Phoenix, and between them, there was no strangeness.

She was also one of the few outsiders who knew her identity.

The two of them sat side by side in the carriage, with Li Nuo facing them, truly a case where a sideways glance turns into a mountain peak.

This scene was so visually striking, he didn’t know where to look and chose to close his eyes and pretend to sleep.

When the carriage passed by the Ministry of Justice, Li Anning went back to the Ministry of Justice for investigation first.

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Li Nuo then took Phoenix to Jade Sound Pavilion.

After a short rest, her condition had improved a bit, but she still needed support to walk.

Li Nuo helped her into Jade Sound Pavilion, handed her over to the girls there, then mounted the carriage and turned back towards the Ministry of Justice.

At Jade Sound Pavilion, two young women carefully helped Phoenix upstairs.

The customers inside looked on with envy.

Seeing the way Miss Phoenix walked, one could imagine just how fierce the fight had been.

The woman of their dreams, whom they couldn’t even hope to touch, was being treated so roughly by someone else.

In Chang’an, the gap between people was wider than that between people and dogs.

In recent days, the Minister of Justice’s son had come to Jade Sound Pavilion only a handful of times.

Many were speculating whether he had grown bored of it.

For such a high-ranking personage, changing women was like changing clothes; getting bored was normal.

Now, it seemed his interest in Miss Phoenix remained undiminished.

This extinguished the aspirations of many who had been scheming.

When Li Nuo returned to the Ministry of Justice, Li Anning’s desk was already piled high with archival files.

All of these were files from the theft case at the Eastern Palace ten years ago.

Li Nuo skimmed through them briefly.

Back then, when the Crown Prince passed away, the Eastern Palace became a mess.

Some officials of the Eastern Palace took advantage of the chaos to steal a large number of treasures.

The artifacts of the Eastern Palace frequently appeared on the black market, eventually alarming the court.

His Majesty, enraged, ordered the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Justice to conduct a thorough investigation, and a large number of people were punished, with countless officials of the Eastern Palace beheaded.

At the time, some of the property was recovered, but some was lost in the midst of the public.

After verification, the treasures found in the secret chamber under Huang Mansion did indeed belong to the Eastern Palace.

Furthermore, the Ministry of Justice made an unexpected discovery.

Old Master Huang’s wife, known as Zeng Yan, had once been a female official in the Inner Palace of the Crown Prince.

As the Crown Prince, the heir apparent to the throne, the structure of the Eastern Palace was similar to that of the court, and it was practically a mini-court in its own right.

The Crown Prince’s Inner Palace corresponded to the Emperor’s harem.

Zeng Yan had originally been the treasurer of the Inner Palace, a Secondary Eighth-rank female official in charge of the Inner Palace’s gold, jade, jewelry, and treasures, with the duty of managing the belongings of the Inner Palace.

After the death of the Crown Prince, the officials of the Eastern Palace went their separate ways.

The female officials of the Inner Palace, those with connections, were transferred to the harem; those without, had to fend for themselves.

Zeng Yan initially entered the palace as a draft from the civilian population, starting as an ordinary palace maid, later reassigned to the Eastern Palace, gradually climbing from maid to official.

As the treasurer of the Inner Palace, it was certainly easier for her to steal the palace’s treasures than for others.

Clearly, these items from the Eastern Palace were stolen by Mrs. Huang before she left.

After the Crown Prince’s funeral, when a large amount of property was discovered stolen from the Eastern Palace, the court began a pursuit.

Those Eastern Palace officials were investigated one by one.

Logically, as the treasurer, she should have been a major focus of the scrutiny at the time.

Yet, for some reason, the court had missed such a big fish.

Over the years, she clearly had been very careful, not revealing a trace.

Having come from a civilian background with no connections, after leaving the Eastern Palace, she found a respectable gentleman to marry.

Even though they owned a mountain of gold, the couple only dared to open a small tavern, probably to avoid drawing attention.

Considering her position as the Eastern Palace’s treasurer, it’s not surprising that Gu Youzhi’s "Mountain Residence Painting" ended up at Huang Mansion.

Come to think of it, this case has been quite a roller coaster.

To find the murderer, they first tracked down the Thief Sect.

In the end, it led to the Eastern Palace theft case from ten years ago.

In the end, the Thief Sect was gone, the Eastern Palace’s lost treasures were recovered, but this case itself remained unresolved.

In the past few months, Li Nuo had encountered several cases related to the Eastern Palace.

He even began to wonder if the Eastern Palace was under some kind of curse.