The Prince’s Beloved is Aiming for Someone Else - Chapter 39

Chapter 39: The Messenger

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Taotao hurriedly helped her sit up. Li Baojia pressed her brow and felt a vague pain in her temples that still throbbed.

She had a bizarre dream in which a big dog ran after her.

Then she screamed in fear while the big dog was licking and biting her mouth and spitting at her.

She wasn’t sure if it was her imagination, but her mouth hurt a little…

Having yet to recover from her cold, she was still weak. Nevertheless, she immediately asked what she was most concerned about now. “Is there a big event in the Imperial City today?”

Taotao thought for a moment before saying, “What do you mean by a big event?”

“Something sensational and unbelievable…”

Taotao suddenly realized. “If that’s the case, something strange has indeed happened. Somewhere in the Imperial City…was on fire, and it was said that a lot of silver was found inside it!”

Because Taotao was embarrassed to say the word “brothel” in front of the unmarried young lady, she vaguely skipped it.

That day, Li Baojia deliberately avoided her when she was talking in her dream because Taotao happened to go out to change the water.

So she didn’t know anything about the fact that Baojia said some nonsense in her daze.

Li Baojia sighed with relief.

Fortunately, it still happened. However, she was also a little afraid to get this matter ruined initially because her rebirth changed many things.

This was the most crucial part of convincing her father.

Perhaps hearing that she had woken up, Madam Huang came in a hurry. Taotao had opened her mouth to tell Li Baojia that the Crown Prince had come to see her when she was interrupted.

“Jiajia, you’ve finally woken up. I was so worried about you. How could you catch a cold at this time? Did these servants not serve you well enough?”

Her eyes swept over the servants in the room with a stern look, and some of the maids cowered for a moment as she looked at them.

Li Baojia sighed. “Mother, it’s my fault. Why are you here?”

Madam Huang said to Taotao, “Take them out first.”

When the servants had all left, she went to Li Baojia’s bedside and asked, somewhat tentatively, “Jiajia, do you…remember what you said when your father and I came to see you today?”

After hearing that a brothel was on fire today, she took a long time to calm down. She had always believed in ghosts and gods.

She turned it over and thought that it could be true that the gods had entrusted her daughter with a dream to foretell the future.

Li Baojia firmly implemented the principle of sealing her mouth. “I was in a daze, and I even said something?”

She looked surprised. “I wasn’t even awake at that time. Did you remember wrongly?”

Huang Ru’er said, “Then I should be wrong. You should lie down and rest and get better.”

She helped Li Baojia to lie down again before she walked out with some worries.

She came to see if Li Baojia still remembered this matter, and as expected, Baojia did not know that she had said those words.

If this was not a dream from the gods, what was it?

Then the prophecy that something would happen to the Li family…was also true.

She thought about it and said to Nanny Lin nearby, “Send some people to keep an eye on the imperial censor’s residence.”

The couple thought the same.

Li Baojia was still lying on the bed, carefully sorting out the things to do in the next few days, when Taotao came in and whispered, “Miss, I saw Yueya sneaking out just now.”

Li Baojia was stunned. “So soon?”

In her original vision, she would not sneak out for at least a few more days.

If she was planted here by someone else, then something had to happen before she would report it.

She was doing manual labor every day and had no access to her yard, so what was there to risk going out to report?

Baojia asked, “Taotao, did something happen this morning…that I don’t know about?”

Taotao nodded but soon shook her head. “I don’t know if you know it, but today the Crown Prince came to visit you and fed you medicine.”

Li Baojia sat up with a start. Her mind was awakened. “What, what?”

How could he come over?

And he fed me medicine?

She found that recently she really could not understand his behavior.

At the same time, she was also a little glad that she was not awake at that time. Otherwise, being fed medicine face-to-face would be so awkward.

“Why didn’t you tell me earlier?” Li Baojia was torn between annoyance and a desire to laugh.

“I was just about to say something when Madam came in, and I couldn’t tell if you were awake when you were fed the medicine or if you knew about it.” Taotao looked innocent.

Li Baojia asked again, “Did you send someone to follow Yueya?”

If there was anything that could be reported to her real master today, it was this.

So the person behind her is related to the Crown Prince?

Who would care so much about something related to the Crown Prince?

She thought about it and concluded that it could only be those women in the Crown Prince’s harem or those noble women who would soon marry into the Crown Prince’s residence.

Many faces flashed through her mind, but in the end, she excluded them one by one.

So was it true that Zhao Yi disliked her and sent her away in her previous life?

Was it not to hollow her out?

She thought it over but couldn’t understand, so she leaned back on the bed and waited for the maids who had followed Yueya to return.

Now she felt that many things, one after another, were forming one mystery after another in front of her, intertwined too complicatedly to be untangled.

On the other side.

Yueya walked on the road, casually strolling the street market, seemingly unhurried.

The two maids behind her looked at each other and were slightly puzzled.

Yueya did not look like she was going to meet someone.

From the corner of her eyes, Yueya glanced behind her and noticed the two maids. However, she was not anxious.

She knew that Li Baojia would send someone to follow her, but she badly needed to show her value in front of Su Ruhui now.

So she went in a hurry anyway.

Her eyes flashed, and she quickly slipped into a tailor’s shop, bought a set of clothes from the boss, and then disappeared into the compartment where she had tried on clothes.

For a long time, no one came out. Then, finally, one of the maids went to check and found that there had been no one inside for a long time!

The maid was a little anxious and turned to ask the manager of the shop, “Sir, where is the person who was changing clothes?”

The manager looked up at her. “I don’t know. She didn’t seem to like it and left after trying on the clothes.”

How was that possible?

The maid said to herself, “What the hell? I didn’t see anyone come out just now.”

Yueya walked cautiously on the path, rushing for a long time to reach the designated place.

Chunzhi had already been waiting there and said impatiently, “Why did you take so long? Do you know how long I’ve been waiting for you?”

Yueya smiled obsequiously. “Sorry, Miss Chunzhi. I was delayed because of some things on the road…”

Chunzhi interrupted her. “Get straight to the point. What have you found out?”

She looked at her somewhat contemptuously. “I heard that you are now just the laundress of Li Baojia. I don’t know why the lady thinks so highly of you. Do you know how much money your brother uses daily on medicine?”

“The other people are also laboring. So how come they don’t use you as much?”

Yueya hurriedly replied, “I’ve failed to earn Miss’s trust, but the Li family is cautious. I…I can’t get near her courtyard now, and I’m afraid it would be even worse if I sent someone else.”

Chunzhi coldly snorted and stopped talking.