latelenovela Chapter 600 Something Strange
Chapter 600 Something Strange
Ye Qing'an bid farewell to Liu Enze, walked around the camp for a while, and then went straight to the central army camp.
As soon as Ye Qing'an entered, she saw that Liu Enze was also in the camp.
That's just right.
"Why are you here, Qing'an?" the Crown Prince asked with a smile.
"I have come because my maidservant told me that the two young ladies serving His Highness the Crown Prince have been imprisoned for some unknown offense. So, I have come to inquire about it."
When Ye Qing'an asked about this matter, Liu Enze simply lowered his head and said, "Then this humble official will take his leave."
"Go." The Crown Prince's smile deepened, but his gaze remained fixed on Ye Qing'an's face. He knew that Ye Qing'an had feelings for him.
See? As soon as those two women who were there to warm his bed made a sound, Ye Qing'an would come and ask them questions.
"The two of them are always fighting over me. One of them comes to me and makes a scene today, and the other comes to me and makes a scene tomorrow. Neither of them can stand me spoiling the other one."
"I found them annoying, so I sent them both away to reflect on their actions."
The Crown Prince's gaze fell on Ye Qing'an: "As I said before, they are just passersby who are playing a part in the game. I have no feelings for them whatsoever."
Ye Qing'an lowered her eyes and chuckled, "This humble woman believes that Your Highness has no feelings for them whatsoever. However, I wonder if Your Highness would allow this humble woman to meet those two young ladies."
"Hmm? You want to see them? What do you want to see them for?"
Ye Qing'an bit her lip: "Your Highness, are you aware that because of those two girls, some very unfavorable rumors have recently surfaced in the camp? They say that Your Highness is bewitched by women, indulging in them all day long and neglecting state affairs."
"But they're still causing trouble at this time, distracting His Majesty, which is even more detrimental to him. Therefore, I wish to see them and, while I'm at it, try to persuade them to be more sensible..."
"Women are generally easier to talk to each other about..."
The crown prince was even more pleased with himself: "Alright, go ahead. Do you want me to go with you?"
“That won’t be necessary.” Ye Qing’an laughed. “Women’s matters should be left to us women to handle. Your Highness should be concerned with the country and the strategy of war.”
"Yes, you're right! Absolutely right, hahaha!"
"Then go ahead, I'll have someone take you there."
"Thank you, Your Highness."
The Crown Prince summoned his personal guards to bring Ye Qing'an to the outside of the tent where the two women were being held. Ye Qing'an turned around and said, "You can wait here. I'll go and talk to the two young ladies."
Seeing the guards hesitate, Ye Qing'an laughed again: "Are you afraid they can do anything to me?"
"That won't happen, after all, Miss Ye is a Supreme Being."
The guard smiled and said, "Miss, please go inside. If you need anything, just let us know."
Ye Qing'an nodded, stepped into the tent, and as soon as he closed the tent door, the two women stood up and wanted to bow to Ye Qing'an.
"Alright." Ye Qing'an waved his hand. "Sit down."
"I heard that you two got into a fight because of jealousy, and I felt something was wrong. You two are from the Fire Glory Pavilion, how could such a thing happen?"
"After much thought, I believe you did this on purpose. Your purpose is most likely to get me to come and see you so that you can tell me something in detail."
"Am I right? If not, then I'd like to ask you why you did this."
The two men exchanged a glance and quickly said, "Our master is exceptionally intelligent; his guess was absolutely correct."
"What is it?"
One of them stepped forward and reported, "We have noticed that the Crown Prince is acting strangely during this time."
"Oh? What's wrong?"
"On our first night with His Highness the Crown Prince, we discovered something amiss with the tea that the prince's personal guards served us that night. They must have put some kind of sleeping potion in it."
Ye Qing'an narrowed her eyes. "Give them sleeping pills?"
Why is that?
"After we discovered this, we exchanged information and then pretended to drink the tea, but actually used our spiritual power to force the tea out."
"Then that night, we discovered that something was wrong with the Crown Prince."
“Every night, after the prince falls asleep, he sleepwalks…”
The woman paused slightly, then hesitated, "I don't know if that counts as sleepwalking."
"The Crown Prince would move around in the tent with his eyes open, just like an ordinary person, but his temperament was completely different from the Crown Prince we saw during the day."
"Different?" Ye Qing'an asked, puzzled. "How are they different?"
"At night, the Crown Prince is silent and cold, never smiles, and rarely speaks. He will take out the military affairs reports that he handled during the day and process them again, and he will also record the situation in the army one by one. Sometimes he will write letters."
"After he finished preparing these things, he would put them into a hidden compartment in the bookshelf inside the tent. We discovered that the items in that compartment seemed to disappear suddenly every day, their whereabouts unknown."
Ye Qing'an narrowed her eyes. What was going on?
Is this a symptom of being under the spell of Nightshade?
However, Ye Qinghao had also fallen victim to the spell Liu Xueying had cast on him before. She had sent Jiu Xiao to keep an eye on Ye Qinghao for a long time, and she herself had even occasionally gone to the main courtyard at night to check on him, but she had never discovered that Ye Qinghao was behaving like this.
What exactly happened to the Crown Prince?
Ye Qing'an paced back and forth in the camp, when a startling conjecture suddenly occurred to him.
Ye Qing'an paused, pursed her lips, and remained silent for a long while.
After a long while, Ye Qing'an turned around and asked, "Besides that, is there anything else that seems off about the Crown Prince?"
"The subordinates also discovered that the events that happened to the Crown Prince every night were like sleepwalking to him; when he woke up the next day, he seemed to have completely forgotten them."
"Is he really forgotten everything? Or is he pretending?" Ye Qing'an frowned, somewhat suspicious.
"It should be true? Because one day, there was no one else in the camp except my subordinates and the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince went to the bookshelf to look for a book, but suddenly stopped in front of the bookshelf and muttered to himself in a low voice, saying that the position of a certain book on the bookshelf had changed and he could not find it. He said that he had clearly put it there yesterday."
"Actually, he moved the book to a different spot during the night."
"But the prince was only puzzled for a moment. After finding the book elsewhere, he did not investigate it further."
"The Crown Prince's expression at the time did not seem to be feigning."
Ye Qing'an bit her lip: "Okay, I understand."