She didn’t know how many times he had suddenly approached and kissed her. But this time, Lin Mengya clearly felt that the person he was kissing was her.
It was neither the daughter of the Lin family nor Princess Yu who had been forcibly given to him. It was her completely original self.
It seemed that those hot lips could penetrate her skin and reach directly into her soul. Lin Mengya suddenly took the initiative to deepen the kiss.
Her hands were hanging around Long Tianyu’s neck and she was standing on tiptoe. Her kiss was warm, sincere, and passionate in her own way. Long Tianyu felt surprised. He liked such a strange yet active Lin Mengya very much.
He hugged her slender waist thoughtfully with his big hands, and the two of them became more and more selfless. Even the onlookers around blushed. They spontaneously hid in their respective rooms with a smile and looked at the passionate couple in the night.
“Oh—” Lin Mengya was hiding in Long Tianyu’s arms and gasping for breath.
This time, though she was bold, she did not regret it at all. Her hands were still wrapped around Long Tianyu’s neck. Leaning on his undulating chest, Lin Mengya smiled, which attracted Long Tianyu even more.
“It seems that my princess is very satisfied. Very good! I’m very pleased.”
Lin Mengya raised her head, and just wanted to refute Prince Yu who always took advantage of her with a serious face when she suddenly smelled a strange fragrance. In an instant, Lin Mengya began to carefully search for the smell in Long Tianyu’s arms until she targeted his hands that had just been wrapped around her waist. Her expression changed.
“What’s happening?”
Long Tianyu, who had been holding Lin Mengya in his arms like a puppy, couldn’t help holding her chin with his big hand and frowned slightly. He thought that this was a new trick invented by Lin Mengya to joke with him.
But then, Lin Mengya grabbed his hands tightly with a serious look in her eyes, and asked, “Where did you fool around? Why other woman’s fragrance are left on your body! If you don’t explain it, don’t even think about getting into my bed today!”
Lin Mengya looked at Long Tianyu intently. After all, there were some things that the fewer people knew, the better. Therefore, she only had to pretend a jealous wife.
But Long Tianyu sniffed his hands suspiciously, and then looked at Lin Mengya with a puzzled look. It seemed that he didn’t quite understand it either.
“I… haven’t touched anyone except you. Could it be that I caught it at my mother’s place?”
Lin Mengya of course knew that Long Tianyu hardly see any other woman but her.
“Nonsense, the spices that your mother uses are all made by me personally, and there is no such a fragrance at all. I think you should be punished. Long Tianyu, how dare you cheat on me just after we got married?”
Lin Mengya, when she was angry and bossy, was somehow attractive. Long Tianyu really couldn’t get serious, because he didn’t have a guilty conscience at all. On the contrary, he found her lovely with her little willfulness.
Standing in front of Lin Mengya obediently, he tried hard to remember the places where he might have touched any spice today. After thinking about it, he suddenly remembered something.
“Oh, I remember. It’s the imperial decree of the empress. The incense paper for the empress’s decree is baked with incense. Now, you have wronged me. Tell me, what should I do to punish you?”
Long Tianyu hugged her waist and stared at her unhappily, but the smile in his eyes betrayed his true thoughts. Lin Mengya immediately scratched her little head in embarrassment. She quickly wanted to turn around and ran away into the yard.
“How dare you run? Your sin is unforgivable!”
Long Tianyu wouldn’t allow her to run away. He grabbed her with his long arms, and she fell into his arms.. He picked her up horizontally and instantly thought of the most suitable way to punish this misbehaved girl.
Everything was isolated in the large door panel of the main house. Only the whispers that stayed in the courtyard gradually disappeared into the darkening night. The bright yellow imperial decree with the Nine-Tailed Phoenix pattern of the empress was placed on the table in front of Lin Mengya at this moment.
That was right. The lingering fragrance was indeed emitted from the imperial decree in front of her. But compared to the scent in Lin Mengya’s memory, the current scent was a bit more of a secular fragrance.
The Shen Nung system was running automatically, but Lin Mengya did not hear any alarms. In other words, there was no toxic substance in it. Even the composition of the hallucinogen she had guessed was nowhere to be seen.
Could it be that she and Tian Ning had made a mistake in the direction of their investigation? Moreover, since she got up in the morning, she had been staring at this thing for five or six hours. Her nose had become accustomed to the smell of the fragrance, but the weak feeling of the floating soul yesterday did not happen again.
Could it be that it was just an accident yesterday? Was it just the occasional rejection between the soul and the body that would lead to such a situation as she had guessed?
But now, this was the only plausible explanation.
“Your Highness, Eunuch Deshun from the empress’s palace has been ordered to bring you something. Would you like to see him in person, or ask him to put the thing down and leave?”
Baiji respectfully waited for Lin Mengya’s instructions outside.
She thought for a while. It was just an eunuch from the empress’s palace. If she received him personally, it would seem that she was trying to suck up to the empress. So she instructed Baiji to ask the eunuch to put things down and give him a tip for the errand before continuing to stare at the imperial decree on the table in a daze.
Not long after, the thing that had been checked carefully was delivered to her. Lin Mengya raised her head and looked at the crimson dress which was also on the table. After looking at it carefully for a while, she discovered that the patterns on the crimson satin fabric were actually lines of Buddhist scriptures.
They could embroider a scripture on the clothes. It proved both the embroiler’s great skill and the smart mind of the person who came up with the idea. Lin Mengya touched it and found that the material was good. Baiji must have almost taken it apart to check it.
There was nothing wrong with it. At this point, Lin Mengya could see the empress’s distinctive style of doing things all at once.
Habitually, she twitched her nose a few times. But it seemed that there was no such strange cold fragrance on the new clothes as in the imperial decree.
It was just a quiet sandalwood fragrance.
She heard that these gowns were all enshrined in the empress’s Buddhist temple before they were assigned to each mansion by her. After being washed and smoked by burning incense, it was distributed to the mansions.
Generally, the spice used in clothes incense and that used in paper incense should be the same.
There was an extra scent of sandalwood, which she could understand. After all, it was before the Buddha and had to be respected. But why, except for the smell of sandalwood, she couldn’t smell anything similar to the smell of imperial decree?
Could it be that—
Lin Mengya held the dress in one hand and imperial decree in the other. Maybe one of these two things was made especially for her.
Although the difference in fragrance alone was not enough to prove it, she just felt that there must be something wrong with it. Anyone would have a certain preference when it came to the use of spices. Especially in the palaces, the ladies in each palace used different precious spices.
Even if they were the same, with her keen sense of smell, she could distinguish them from the subtleties. The first few times when she had gone to the empress’s palace or gotten close to her, she could only smell the quiet sandalwood scent on her.
The smell on the dress just happened to be the same.
So—
Lin Mengya held the imperial decree and kept looking at it. If this thing was really specially made for her, what was the purpose of this person? Besides, was the change of her soul related to this thing?
Although she had infinite doubts, Lin Mengya temporarily suppressed them. She must prepare for the worst. If the person who wanted to deal with her was the empress, the trip to Huguo Temple would probably be full of accidents.
But would Lin Mengya be afraid of any accidents in this life?
“Hongyu, Baiji, Baishao, Baizhi, you four settle everything in the yard these few days. We will go to the monastery to pray for blessings in a few days. Let’s go together.”
The four girls agreed softly outside, and they went to make preparations in an orderly manner. This time, Lin Mengya would have to keep herself safe. More importantly, she had to protect the innocent Long Yinghua.
Sitting in the room, Lin Mengya looked at two things on the table while she was thinking quickly. If her opponent really interfered with her soul through fragrance, it would be hard for her to resist it by holding her breath. After all, couldn’t all human pores be closed?
It would be nice to have modern protective clothing which could even resist strong acids and alkalis, let alone a weird fragrance. Before figuring out what tricks her opponent used, her defense seemed so passive.
She got up and came to the head of the bed. In the small cabinet under the mirror, the small bead given to her by Tian Ning was still exuding a soft brilliance.
She hoped that what Tian Ning had said was true and this little thing could really keep her safe once. She found a purse and carefully stuffed the bead in it.
Lin Mengya looked at the little purse in her hand with serious eyes.