Chapter 439 The Witchcraft (Part One)
Prince Jing touched Yun Shang''s hair with a smile on his face and squinted his eyes. "I know. Don''t
worry about me. I have promised you that I will take good care of myself, and I will definitelye back
safe and sound."
After a pause, he then added, "take care of yourself when you are in the Jin City. I don''t allow the
shadow guards to leave you alone at any time."
Yun Shang chuckled and said to him, "it seems that we are about to split up immediately. Your
highness will leave half a monthter."
Prince Jing couldn''t helpughing as well. He touched her forehead and let out a sigh. "You..."
As Yun Shang and him returned to Prince Rui''s mansion, she saw the Butler waiting anxiously at the
door. Judging from his expression, Yun Shang knew that something must have happened. She quickly
got off the carriage and frowned. "What happened?"
The Butler looked around and said to Yun Shang and Luo Qingyan, "Your Highness, yourdyship,
please go back now. I have something to tell you."
Yun Shang and Luo Qingyan looked at each other. Then they followed the Butler into the mansion and
went back to the yard. "What''s the matter? Look at your pale face. What happened?"
The Butler lowered his voice after a moment''s silence. "When the servant cleaned the study today, he
found a doll with the birthday of His Majesty on it, and it was covered with silver needles. When the
servant found it, he didn''t report it to me. Instead, he told others about it, and he was dead now and the
doll was gone. "
Yun Shang''s face suddenly turned pale at his words, and Luo Qingyan also had a bad look on his face.
No matter whose generation or country it was, the sorceress skill was forbidden, and the birth time of
the royal family was also top secret. If it was rted to the witchcraft, it would be the crime of
destruction of the whole family.
"Did anyone go out after you found out what happened?" Yun Shang asked immediately.
The Butler shook his head and answered, "no, your highness. I immediately ordered the servants to
close all the doors. After that, I told Luo Yi and his men to send some secret guards to follow the
servants. But it is not a good idea that no one is allowed to enter or go outside all the time. The Prince
Rui''s mansion''s daily necessities need to be purchased... "
Yun Shang paced up and down in the room anxiously for a long time before she said again, "then we
will close our door tonight. We only have one night to go and find this witch doll."
"Search the whole mansion?" The Butler pondered for a moment, and answered her, "But there is a
problem, there are some old servants in our mansion when the previous crown prince was present. I''m
afraid that someone might suspect us if we frisked here."
"Why not make an excuse?" Luo Qingyan frowned and said indifferently, "it''s reported that her
Highness'' jade pendant was missing. It must be a thief from the mansion. Everyone is forbidden to go
in and out of the mansion today, and they are going to be searched one by one."
The Butler bowed to Prince Rui and Yun Shang, and ran away to do it immediately.
Yun Shang and Luo Qingyan looked at each other and sat down in the room. Qian Yin hurriedly served
them some tea. Yun Shang took a cup of tea and said, "it''s all my fault. When I entered the mansion, I
didn''t dismiss all servants of the previous Crown Prince."
Luo Qingyan shook his head. "No matter the servants were dismissed or not, the things will finally
happen sooner orter. We only brought so many people here. If we don''t want to expose the strength
of our secret guards, we can only find some servants outside the mansion. And if others want to nt
people in the mansion, we can''t guard against them. In the past, we thought we would be safe as long
as we didn''t allow others to enter our yard, but we forgot that I''m involved in every inch of thend in
the prince rui''s mansion. If someone wants
to hurt us, they don''t have to let it happen in our yard.
Both of thempsed into silence after this.
Time passed by little by little and it was almost midnight.
There were faint voicesing from outside. Yun Shang had served three cups of tea in front of her
already.
"Stop! Stop! Where are you running? " There was an uproaring from outside. Yun Shang sprang to
her feet and walked towards the door in a sudden, only to find that the servant was holding a torch as if
he was chasing someone.
Yun Shang tipped Qian Yin a gesture. Qian Yin immediately pped her hands, and two men in ck
rushed towards the man who ran at the forefront. Soon, two men brought the man back.
Yun Shang frowned and looked at the man in their hands. He was about 30 years old, and he looked
like an ordinary man. His eyes were flickering and he seemed somewhat guilty.
"Where were you going? Why were you running?" The secret guard suddenly threw the man to the
ground, and the man''s face wrinkled in pain.
The Butler soon came over and reported to them, "Your Highness, this man is Zhou Yi. He is in charge
of fetching the water in the kitchen. Just now when we searched the yard where he is living, we saw
him digging soil in the house secretly. He seemed to be burying something. As soon as he saw the
servantsing, he rushed outside, and when he found that there were guards at the back door, he
returned immediately. "
Yun Shang gave him a nce, and saw his chest bulging up. She couldn''t help but frown and ordered,
"take out the thing in his arms."
The secret guard walked up to the man and kicked him to the ground. When Zhou Yi saw the secret
guard wanted to grab the thing in his arms, he immediately hugged his arms together and blocked the
secret guard from approaching him.
The two secret guards rushed up to him together and kicked his back. The man who felt the pain
slightly loosened his body, and a secret guard took the opportunity to break apart his hands that were
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holding his knees. The two guards together took the thing in his arms.