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Chapter 55: Successfully unlocked Chu Shao's favorability

The next day, Governor Xu invited Xiao Jin and Chu Shao to go to the Purple Bamboo Forest together. By then, Xiao Jin had already arranged everything from the previous night.

The two Qin sisters followed Xia Sanniang to temporarily stay at a mansion in Qingzhou.

The house was arranged before Xiao Jin's trip, and Old Zhang was always reliable in handling things, so she could rest assured.
At the same time, there were also garrison soldiers responsible for guarding, with strict precautions and unlikely to make any mistakes.

However, Xia Sanniang's mother-in-law was old and inconvenient to ride on a boat. 

So Xiao Jin transferred her to another private mansion in Xinyang, also under the care and guard of garrison soldiers.

Before transferring them, Xiao Jin interrogated the assassin and the Qin family trio and found no other answers than what she had previously guessed. 

Although the assassins were sent by the Fourth Prince, their previous loyalty was to Xiao Shuang. The key to this matter lies in whether Xiao Shuang knew or not.

Based on Chu Shao's previous description, Xiao Jin could basically conclude that Xiao Shuang should know. 

However, the assassination she encountered that day did not target her with the poisoned blade, but rather Chu Shao. This indicates that the person Xiao Shuang wanted to kill was Chu Shao.

At this moment, Xiao Jin listened absentmindedly to Governor Xu's introduction of the origin of this bamboo forest, wondering why Xiao Shuang wanted to kill Chu Shao. 

Chu Shao accompanied the two of them to play and looked at the lush bamboo forest with great interest. 

The bamboo forest was dense, with occasional light breezes disturbing the birds on the branches, creating a wave of green. 

Looking at the slender bamboo leaves, Chu Shao suddenly remembered the two figures standing on the boat last night. 

At that time, she was leaning on the red lacquered railing, listening quietly to Xiao Jin telling strange stories to Qin Xueyi.

A smile played at the corners of her lips, like the silver moon hook in the sky.

Xiao Jin's voice was low and ethereal, softer than the breeze that brushed across the lake.

Her slender figure was reflected in the lake, the colors faint and hazy in the moonlight.

Chu Shao stood on the pavilion, gazing intently at Xiao Jin as if looking at a painting.

A scroll slowly unfolded before Chu Shao's eyes, and she knew that this painting was rare and elusive, always belonging only to the gentle breeze on the boat and the bright moon in the sky.

She knew that she was only a viewer of the painting, and this fact was clear to her.

However, when Xiao Jin placed the bamboo leaves between her lips and played a hoarse melody, Chu Shao looked at the slight furrow in Xiao Jin's brow, as well as the row of willow trees swaying in the night wind beside her.

For a moment, she was unwilling to only be a viewer of the painting.

Then, Chu Shao remembered the jade flute hanging from her waist. She had just discovered it on the boat, and perhaps she had not played a tune on the flute in a long time.

Looking at Xiao Jin and Qin Xueyi on the boat, Chu Shao was suddenly struck with the idea that such people against such a backdrop, if stained with blood, would only defile the beauty of the night.