Chapter 1289: The Truth Is Out

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Hundred Flowers Palace.

Everyone gathered in Su Xuan’s room.

The reason why they chose his room at first was that he had to recuperate and could not get out of bed. To take care of him, every conversation would hang over him.

Over time, it became a habit.

In the middle of the eight-seat table where everyone was sitting, there was an old-looking Wordless Book.

“This is…”

The Palace Lord couldn’t help but stretch out her hand in surprise. She picked up the Wordless Book and checked it repeatedly. Then, she carefully touched the texture of the paper.

“It’s indeed the Wordless ook, and it has a few more pages than the one from the Hundred Flowers Palace.”

After saying that, she saw that Wei Xu was also a little curious, so she handed the book over. “General Wei.”

Wei Xu took it.

This was the first time he had seen the legendary Wordless Book. It was said that the Hundred Flowers Palace originally had one, but it had been wiped clean by the three little ones.

Ahem.

Fortunately, her son had brought a new book back. Otherwise, she really could not afford it.

“Dad, I want to see it too!” Wei Liulang said.

Wei Xu looked at the Palace Lord.

He seemed to have tacitly agreed that this book belonged to the Hundred Flowers Palace.

The Palace Lord said, “Why are you looking at me for Little Ting’s reward?”

“It’s for Mother,” Wei Ting said. “Last time, Dahu, Erhu, and Xiaohu destroyed the Wordless Book of the Hundred Flower Palace.”

The Palace Lord waved her hand. “I’ve long remembered the secret manual on it.”

Wei Liulang took the Wordless Book and turned it over and over, but he could not see anything.

“Xiaoxiao, take a look.”

He handed it to Su Xiaoxiao.

Su Xiaoxiao couldn’t understand the Wordless Book either.

“Where did you find it?” the Palace Lord asked Wei Ting and Su Mo.

“The first floor,” Wei Ting said.

“The time was so tight. Why did you look for this?”

“It’s also a coincidence.”

It was not that Wei Ting was humble. It was really a coincidence.

The disciple called the Slave Killer from the Thousand Possibilities Pavilion walked towards the East Pavilion as soon as he entered the Scripture Depository. He did not even look at the bookshelves he passed by as if he was certain that the East Pavilion had the secret manual he needed.

Lou Bufan must have instructed him.

Wei Ting did not care at first, but he learned from their conversation that he could not read.

The only secret manual that could be found even if one could not read was the Wordless Book.

Wei Ting wanted to bring it back for Mother Palace Lord.

Wei Liulang was puzzled. “But doesn’t the Scripture Depository forbid snatching things?”

Wei Ting said, “I didn’t snatch it. He flipped through the Wordless Book and left!”

Everyone was speechless.

The Palace Lord muttered, “What is Lou Bufan doing?”

“What happened next?”

Wei Liulang asked curiously.

Wei Ting said, “Later on, I went up. Su Mo chatted with him on the first floor for a while.”

Su Mo’s expression was indescribable. “I didn’t chat with him. He came to look for me. Later, he brought a secret manual over and asked me what it was. He asked more than a hundred times.”

Su Xuan smiled. “Just lie to him. Can’t you do it?”

Su Mo choked.

He hadn’t thought of it at the time.

Su Xiaoxiao thought, “Thank goodness the Slave Killer didn’t offend the Head of the Secret Service. Otherwise, he would have been scammed of everything on him.”

Wei Xu asked, “Have you seen the Xiahou family’s genealogy?”

Wei Ting said seriously, “I didn’t see the genealogy, but I saw a handwritten letter recorded in the words of the previous dynasty. The Xiahou family… is a descendant of Emperor Wu!”

“A descendant of Emperor Wu?”

The Palace Lord gasped.

The first time she heard of the descendants of Emperor Wu was when Su Xiaoxiao and Wei Ting explained their background and identity, as well as the power struggle between the Xiahou family, the Southern Wilderness, and the Great Zhou.

The Palace Lord only thought that the City Lord had the ambition to control the countries and didn’t think too much about it.

The others were also very surprised.

Wei Liulang asked, “Is it one of the bloodlines of Emperor Wu like the royal family of the Southern Wilderness?”

Wei Ting said, “It’s different. The royal family of the Southern Wilderness came from a concubine’s descendant. The ancestor of the Xiahou family is the younger brother of the Crown Prince. He’s a direct descendant.”

Wei Liulang was puzzled. “Then why did the Xiahou family treat the Wei family like this?”

Wei Ting said, “The Xiahou family are not behind this. It’s Xiahou Yi.”

Wei Liulang was even more confused. “Why did Xiahou Yi do this?”

“Eh, the last two pages are not secret manuals.”

The Palace Lord suddenly said.

She smeared the special potion on the Wordless Book, and rows of words gradually appeared on the originally blank page.

Everyone immediately looked over.

From beginning to end, everyone fell silent.

Su Xiaoxiao muttered, “I see. Thousand Mountains Island is a prison island.”

They imprisoned countless sinners and sacrifices from the Crown Prince’s lineage. The Xiahou family was this sacrifice.

They had been cursed by the State Preceptor. As long as the Crown Prince’s lineage was not eliminated, the curse would not be resolved.

The Xiahou family would be tortured for generations and die of illness.

Wei Liulang felt his hair stand on end. “So mysterious.”

Su Xiaoxiao said thoughtfully, “Xiahou Yi must have discovered the secret in the Wordless Book.”

Su Xiaoxiao didn’t believe in curses. This was a disease inherited by the family and had nothing to do with curses.

That Imperial Preceptor should be a powerful physician who used this opportunity to deliberately mystify things.

However, in this superstitious dynasty, many people would believe the Imperial Preceptor.

No wonder Xiahou Yi had said to her that day, “Everyone will die.”

“Ridiculous,” Su Mo said.

Ling Yun remained silent from the beginning to the end.

“Don’t believe this,” Wei Liulang said to him. “What curse? It’s all nonsense!”

Ling Yun said indifferently, “What does the Xiahou family’s curse have to do with me?”

Wei Liulang opened his mouth. Alright, as long as you’re happy.

“What’s this?”

The Palace Lord touched a flower in the corner of the last page. “It looks like a mark, but it doesn’t look like a mark. Why would this appear?”

“Let me see.”

Su Xiaoxiao leaned over.

The Palace Lord turned the Wordless Book around.

Su Xiaoxiao looked at it. “This should be a herb.”

“Herbs?”

Hearing this, Wei Liulang immediately lay on the table.

At this moment, Jing Yi also stuck his head out to take a look.

The two of them bumped their heads.

Wei Liulang cried out in pain. “Are the heads of children so hard?”

Jing Yi replied, “Yes.”

The more Su Xiaoxiao looked at it, the stranger she found it. “This flower…”

She picked up the secret manual and walked out.

Wei Liulang asked, “Xiaoxiao, what are you doing?”

Jing Yi followed without a word.

Su Xiaoxiao entered the house, opened the eight paintings drawn by Wei Ting, and found the one that overlapped with Wei Xu’s map.

She placed the Wordless Book on the cliff in the portrait. Coincidentally, there was an identical grass there, but the one in the Wordless Book did not bloom. Purple flowers bloomed on the portrait.

Jing Yi was shocked.

It was said that Wei Ting had an amazing memory. There were not many people who could remember this detail…

Su Xiaoxiao said in a daze, “It’s medicine… medicine! I understand. What’s really recorded in this secret manual isn’t a curse, but a way to break it!”

To be precise, it was a way to treat this illness.

“Jing Yi!”

She grabbed Jing Yi’s arm.

Jing Yi muttered,”Huh?”

Su Xiaoxiao smiled and returned to Su Xuan’s room. “The Xiahou family’s illness is saved! It’s this herb!”

The Palace Lord said, “This herb isn’t on Thousand Mountain Island.”

Su Xiaoxiao nodded. “The island in the portrait.”