Shengjing Noble

Chapter 423: A Daughter

"Bring me the sachet." Su Lanyin stretched out her hand.

"How do you know?" Su Shengyan asked as he handed her the tampered sachet.

"Chu Yan told me."

Su Lanyin took the sachet and examined it carefully, and sure enough, she found a smell of blood inside.

"This is a tigress. It's been tainted with the blood of a young tiger, so it keeps chasing you."

"how do you know?"

"On my way to find you just now, I saw several animal traps. One of them had a broken tiger tail caught in it. It looked like a tiger cub. I thought someone must have killed the tiger cub. This season is when the tigress is giving birth and breeding. She will definitely pursue the enemy who hurt her cubs."

Chu Yan limped forward and couldn't help but exclaimed: "No wonder this tiger came all the way here just to kill Brother Su."

"As long as we find the little tiger's body, we will know who is plotting against you, but I think that big brother already has the answer in his mind."

Su Shengyan nodded: "At the moment, apart from the An family, I'm afraid no one would hate me so much that they would risk killing the tiger cub and hiding its blood on me."

"It's not suitable to stay here for long, let's go back first."

"Wait, there is one more thing I need to do before I go back."

"what's up?"

"The martial arts competition has not yet been decided."

……

When Fu Wuyang heard that a woman had stolen the prince's horse and entered the wild beast area, he immediately went back to the tent to take a look, and sure enough, there was no sign of Su Lanyin.

He was terrified and quickly sent people into the hunting area to search, but he saw Su Lanyin, Su Shengyan and Chu Yan coming back with prey.

Not only did they kill several wolves, they also got bear paws and tiger heads. When they put the things on the table, everyone was stunned.

I'm afraid everyone knows who the champion of martial arts this time is, even if we don't say it.

Chu Yan was injured and had asked the imperial physician to help check him, but Su Shengyan was worried and asked Su Lanyin to go over and take a look.

in the tent.

The imperial physician looked embarrassed: "Mr. Chu, if you don't take off your shoes and socks, how can I treat your injuries?"

Chu Yan frowned, his eyes flickering slightly: "I just hurt my ankle, just look at it this way."

"That requires checking all the bones. You might need to have your bones straightened. You should take off your shoes and socks right away."

"No need! I will wait until tomorrow when I return to the capital. The doctor at home will naturally see me. No need to bother the imperial physician."

"How can that be possible? This illness cannot be delayed any longer!"

As the imperial physician was about to start, Chu Yan held on to his trouser leg tightly and refused to let him see.

The two were in a stalemate, and Su Lanyin followed Su Shengyan in.

"Doctor, what's going on? How is his foot?"

Su Shengyan asked worriedly.

"Oh, Master Su, please try to persuade Master Chu. He refuses to let me see his feet."

Chu Yan hurriedly explained: "No, I just don't trust other people to help me with the diagnosis. I'd better wait until I go home tomorrow to talk about it."

Su Shengyan frowned: "Why don't you trust others? The imperial physician is not a bad person. Don't worry, he was sent by King Xiaoyao, he won't do anything to you..."

Before he could finish his words, Su Lanyin interrupted him.

"Since Master Chu is determined to do so, we can't force him. If anything goes wrong, the Imperial Physician will also be held responsible, right?"

When the imperial physician heard this, he agreed.

If he forces himself to treat others and they are not satisfied, he will be the one to blame in the end.

In order to avoid trouble, the imperial physician had to get up and leave.

Su Lanyin's eyes flickered, and she smiled and said, "Brother, I'm hungry. Can you help me find something to eat?"

"Okay, wait, I'll be right back."

After Su Shengyan was sent away, only Su Lanyin and Chu Yan were left in the tent.

She walked forward and looked at the boots beside the bed, a smile on her face.

"Mr. Chu's feet are so small."

Su Lanyin raised her eyebrows, pretending to be tentative.

Chu Yan's face changed drastically and he hurriedly hid his boots under the bed.

"I...I was born with a pair of small feet. What's the problem?"

"no problem."

Su Lanyin smiled, pretended to walk to the bedside casually, and suddenly reached out and grabbed Chu Yan's arm.

"what are you doing?"

Chu Yan wanted to resist, but his feet were in so much pain that he was no match for Su Lanyin.

"Let, let me go!"

Su Lanyin felt her pulse in just a few strokes, her eyes lit up, and she went straight to the point.

"You are indeed a woman dressed as a man!"

Chu Yan was horrified: "You, what nonsense are you talking about! I am a man!"

"Really? Then dare you take off your clothes and show me?"

"Why!"

"I'm a doctor, you can't hide it from me. Your pulse is clearly that of a woman. Tell me, why did you disguise yourself as a man to sneak into the martial arts exam? What's your intention?"

"I do not have……"

Chu Yan was still being stubborn, but Su Lanyin stopped talking nonsense with her.

He turned and walked to the entrance of the tent, threateningly saying, "Do you need my prince to confirm this?"

"do not want!"

Chu Yan panicked and hurriedly stood up to chase her, but because of his injured ankle, he lost his balance and fell to the ground with a thud.

Seeing this, Su Lanyin went over and helped her onto the bed.

"Why don't you pretend?"

Chu Yan nervously grabbed her arm, his eyes full of fear: "Please, don't tell anyone! If anyone finds out, our whole family will be doomed!"

Su Lanyin certainly knew the consequences of disguising herself as a man to take part in the martial arts examination. This was a crime of deceiving the emperor, and if things went wrong she would likely have her property confiscated, she would be exiled, or even beheaded in public.

"I can not tell others, but you have to make it clear what your purpose is."

"I... I don't have any purpose, I just don't want to disappoint my father." Chu Yan's eyes flashed with loneliness, and he sat dejectedly on the edge of the bed.

"Tell me what's going on."

"There are no male heirs in the Chu family. I have five older sisters, so there are already six of them including me. My mother had a difficult labor and suffered from a disease when she gave birth to me, and she will never be able to get pregnant again in her lifetime."

"But the Chu family's ancestors have already issued an order that if my mother cannot give birth to another boy, my father will have to divorce her and marry another woman to start a family."

"My mother had no choice but to bribe the midwife and exchange the baby for a boy to deal with my father and grandmother. After they saw me, they exchanged me back."

"So, from childhood to adulthood, I have always presented myself as a boy. Except for my mother and the midwife who delivered me, no one in the world knew that I was a girl."

"Since I was little, my mother forced me to study and practice martial arts, hoping that I could become the best. In this way, maybe in the future, when my father finds out that I am a girl, he will forgive her."

"This time, it was my father who insisted that I take part in the martial arts exam. Seeing that she couldn't stop me, my mother simply encouraged me to win the title of martial arts champion to bring honor to the family. But she completely forgot that if I was discovered, it would be a crime of deceiving the emperor!"

"I know I can't keep it a secret for too long, but I didn't expect you to find out first... Miss Su, please, can you pretend you know nothing? Don't worry, even if something happens in the future, I will never implicate you."