Chapter 386: The Disaster Caused By A Painting

【 Wen Xueran’s mood was good. He left Peach Blossom Island leisurely. That painting’s draft, of course, came from Xia Yuhang. The person on it wasn’t that Miss Ning Ziying. 】 But now, Ning Ziying’s identity has already been proven, hasn’t it!

」 On the carriage, Ning Xueyan opened the painting scroll again. Her ink jade eyes fell on the painting, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, and she was quietly speechless.

“Young Lady…this doesn’t seem quite like Miss Ziying!” Lan Ning also looked with her, and after a while, she suddenly couldn’t help but speak. Just now, at first glance, everyone else was right, so she overlooked a few points about the person on it. At this time, when she looked closely, she found that it was still a little different.

“This isn’t Sister Ziying.” Ning Xueyan affirmed.

Just now, perhaps under anger, she would have regarded the person in the painting as herself, but now, looking at it, the two people were clearly different. The woman in the painting might look very similar to Ning Ziying. That same exquisite beauty, and Ning Ziying had seven or eight points of similarity, but there were certainly still some slightly different places.

In the corner of the eye, in the eyebrow, and on the expression.

In her previous life, she was Ning Ziying, and she was still very familiar with her own face. The reason she didn’t recognize it immediately was just because she was affected by other external objects. The Xia Yuhang, Lan Ning, and the night market in the painting were all real. Also, because she immediately thought the woman in the painting was herself from her previous life.

Now, looking with a calm heart, she immediately saw the differences.

In her previous life, her temperament was gentle, and there was no such fresh and clever feeling between her eyes and eyebrows. That was clearly a young girl similar to Heng Yuqing, lacking a bit of gentleness, but with a bit more of an arrogant feeling. The smile at the corner of the mouth was brighter than her previous life.

In her previous life, Ning Ziying was reserved, gentle, and tranquil.

And the person in the painting before her, at a glance, it could be seen that her temperament was cheerful, happy, and unreserved, without a bit of a gloomy feeling.

But, these two people were very similar.

Could it be that this painting wasn’t painted by Xia Yuhang? It was just that he used Xia Yuhang’s painting method to combine some other people together? And the person in this combination must know a lot of inside stories…

“Young Lady, this person isn’t Miss Ziying, could it be that Miss Ziying has other sisters?” Lan Ning bit her lip and asked. With such similar appearance, no matter how you looked at it, there was a relationship, but she was only sent out as a maidservant to the Duke’s Mansion after Ning Ziying arrived. She didn’t know much about Ning Ziying’s many matters.

“No, she doesn’t have sisters.” Ning Xueyan sighed softly. Everyone knew that there was only one Princess in the Previous Dynasty. She hadn’t heard of any other princesses. So, it was impossible that there were other sisters alive. Moreover, even if her sisters were still alive, what was going on with this painting?

That kind of painting method was clearly Xia Yuhang’s, but who was the woman he painted? Since it wasn’t Ning Ziying, why did she have a Lan Ning behind her? That kind of night market. In her previous life, Xia Yuhang took her there, and that bridge did exist.

Could it be that Xia Yuhang knew another woman, and this woman was seven or eight points similar to herself, but how was this possible.

“Lan Ning, after you go back, go with Nurse Han to inquire, whether anything else has happened in the mansion recently, especially ask about what happened in Cloud Shadow Courtyard.” Elegantly closing the painting scroll in her hand, a cold smile appeared on Ning Xueyan’s face. No matter what was going on with this painting, she couldn’t figure it out for a moment, but she must find out about the matters in the Duke’s Mansion.

Not long ago, she hadn’t heard anyone mention Ning Ziying’s matters, indicating that the people in the mansion were still keeping their mouths shut, but how did Wen Xueran know about her previous life’s guest in the Duke’s Mansion, and even knew about her death, the most important thing was to connect her with Ning Huaiyuan, it seemed that some people couldn’t sit still.

“Yes, Young Lady.” Lan Ning nodded and thought for a moment, and said with a few points of unwillingness, “Young Lady, are we just letting them ruin Miss Ziying’s reputation like this?”

“No, you can rest assured. They planted the cause today, and the next is their fruit. Revenge for karma, such a hatred, how can it be so simply avenged, they owe Sister Ziying not just a life!” Ning Xueyan said softly, and a smile of exquisite mockery appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Ning Ziying’s hatred, Xiang’er’s hatred, Madam Ming’s hatred, Ning Xueyan’s hatred, for the hatred of so many people, she crawled out from the Nine Underworlds, how could she let them go in vain.

They didn’t want to ruin her reputation, they wanted to downplay this blood case, it’s a pity, she would never let them have their way.

Looking at her smiling face, it was very beautiful, but it made Lan Ning’s heart suddenly shudder. The meaning of her Young Lady’s words wasn’t simple, and it even carried a trace of cruelty and bloodthirst, but it also made her feel a sense of pleasure. The First Madam and the others, who behaved gently and magnanimously on the surface, were vicious on the inside.

After killing Miss Ziying, they even wanted to trample on her, how could it not make Lan Ning angry.

And at this moment, the ruthlessness and bloodthirst shown on Ning Xueyan’s face, she should be afraid, but unfortunately, she didn’t feel afraid, she only felt that it should be like this, otherwise, Miss Ziying would also be angry in the Underworld.

Xia Yuhang and Miss Ziying, as well as the First Young Lady’s matter, Lan Ning saw it all clearly, and also clearly knew about Xia Yuhang and the First Young Lady’s deception towards Miss Ziying, and this kind of deception finally ended in such a bloody and cruel way, anyone seeing such a kind, gentle girl fall to such an end, would be resentful.

“Young Lady, could it be that the First Madam and the others deliberately released this kind of wind sound, just to prevent others from knowing about Miss Ziying’s death, and it’s related to the First Young Lady’s Husband?” Lan Ning thought for a moment and asked.

Ning Xueyan looked at her with appreciation, handed her the painting, and the corner of her mouth slightly hooked, a trace of cold mockery: “Since they are willing to release such a wind sound at this time, then just let the wind sound be even bigger, the Duke’s Mansion also keeps a Young Lady, and this Young Lady also died on the night before Xia Yuhang’s marriage, coupled with this appearance, perhaps a good portion of people want to know what the truth of the matter is.”

Originally, she was still thinking how to bring this matter out. Always everyone knows that she and Ning Ziying were not familiar with each other before, but now this matter wasn’t initiated by herself, that would be even better. As for whether someone would be willing to investigate, that would be even less of a problem. With her identity as a Princess of the Previous Dynasty, plus the fact that she secretly entered the capital that day, and then changed her course in the middle.

In this manner, it seemed like she was avoiding someone. If those who were investigating her knew that she later entered the Duke’s Mansion, they would inevitably go to the Duke’s Mansion to investigate. Madam Ling and others, even if they had vicious thoughts, how could they be a match for those people? It was possible for the Duke’s Mansion to be turned upside down.

That would be really great, the Duke’s Mansion is going to be in chaos!

“Young Lady, do you plan to release this painting?” Lan Ning understood Ning Xueyan’s meaning as soon as she heard it and asked.

“Yes, but not now.” Ning Xueyan nodded leisurely.

“But this painting was taken from Prince Min’s Heir, then others will certainly know.” Lan Ning worried. She knew this painting was in her Young Lady’s hand, but there was also Prince Min’s Heir. This heir didn’t seem to be a tight-lipped person. Then, it was possible that everyone would know.

If the Duke’s Mansion discovered this painting was in the Young Lady’s hand, and it appeared outside inexplicably, they might associate it with something, which wouldn’t be a good thing for the Young Lady.

“Prince Min’s Heir won’t speak.” Ning Xueyan said with confidence. This Prince Min’s Heir was by no means simple. The coincidence of today’s meeting, it was indeed a coincidence, just like before today, she didn’t know Heng Yuqing would invite her to view the peach blossoms, but she didn’t know, didn’t mean Heng Yuqing wasn’t asking her cousin for an invitation.

This painting, was prepared just right, of course she didn’t believe that Wen Xueran would carry this painting everywhere, and the origin of this painting was also so problematic. Bringing such a painting to her, if it was unintentional, that was really too coincidental.

One thing was a coincidence, two things might be too, but so many were stacked together, she would rather believe it was intentional, just like she didn’t understand why Wen Xueran would seek out Master Jingkong, and she now didn’t understand why Wen Xueran would say such words, and also specially took out this painting.

But there’s one thing that can be proven, Wen Xueran should be related to her previous life, but she didn’t know what relationship he had with her!

“The painting is gone? Where did you put it?” A trace of anger appeared on Xia Yuhang’s handsome face. He “slapped” heavily on the table, and sternly asked.

“Young Master, it’s… it’s the person beside Concubine Ning who took it, saying… saying they recognized the person on it and wanted to take it to have a look.” The boy servant timidly said, it wasn’t that he didn’t know that this painting was the Young Master’s favorite one, since the painting was finished, it had always been hanging in the Young Master’s study, and he basically didn’t let anyone look at it.

But that maidservant was the newly arrived Concubine Ning’s. Concubine Ning was the Young Madam’s own sister, and it was said that she was very beautiful, and would inevitably be favored when she entered the mansion. He didn’t dare to offend her. She wanted to see this painting, and it didn’t matter, moreover, people also said that the person in the painting was a familiar person, maybe it was Concubine Ning herself.

The painting that the Young Master cherished in normal days, was also because of the person in the painting!

Moreover, even if it wasn’t, the maidservant also said that it would be returned early tomorrow morning, then he wouldn’t necessarily be scolded.

It was because of this that the boy servant didn’t refuse to give the painting to the maidservant. Today was the Young Master’s Wedding Night, he couldn’t let the bride get angry. But who would have thought, the Young Master who should have gone to the back, unexpectedly returned to the study again, and also found that the painting was gone.

Hearing that the painting was taken by Ning Yuling, a cold anger surged on Xia Yuhang’s face. With a flick of his sleeve, he stood up and walked out, the boy servant hurriedly got up and followed. In a place in the backyard, a cloak hung for joy, this was the new courtyard that the Minister Xia’s Mansion prepared for Ning Yuling. Ning Yuling entered the mansion two days ago, but they hadn’t had the Bridal Chamber yet, they prepared to have it tonight.

Whether it was the maidservant or the old woman, seeing Xia Yuhang coming, they all looked happy and congratulated him, but seeing the coldness on the face of the always gentle Eldest Young Master, they all dared not to speak more.

Xia Yuhang entered the courtyard and didn’t stay long before leaving Ning Yuling’s courtyard, and then the heart-wrenching crying came from the backyard.

In a main courtyard of Minister Xia’s Mansion, Ning Ziyan, after hearing the report, specially drank an extra bowl of sweet soup, and also added a fruit.

In another simple courtyard, a thin woman, almost dried up, stood outside the window, looking at a peach blossom outside the window, her eyes twitched, revealing a grim, terrifying smile. Ning Ziyan, your good days, are also coming to an end!