Is the emperor cremated today?

Chapter 17

The two sisters started chatting in the garden, so they also had dinner together in the garden. After dinner, they sent Xu Jiaoyue, who had inconvenient legs and feet, back to Lingyuexuan before returning to Lanyin Academy.

Xu Jiaoyue waited for Xu Miaoyin to go far away before getting off the couch to see if there was any problem with her right leg.

When it touched the ground, there was a dense tingling pain, but it was still acceptable. After walking a few steps, I gradually got used to it. Xu Jiaoyue limped around the room.

The door opened suddenly, Chen Fengling walked in, Xu Jiaoyue looked back, and ignored it.

Seeing her limping, Chen Fengling smiled and sat on the round stool outside.

"If your leg keeps walking like this, it won't heal immediately. Let's take a rest first."

"If you have something to say, just say it." Xu Jiaoyue walked back to the soft couch, panting twice.

Chen Fengling twirled the folding fan in her hand, without going around in circles, she asked, "Did Madam tell you anything today?"

Xu Jiaoyue shook her head and smiled, but instead of answering him, she asked, "What do you think she will say to me?"

Seeing that he didn't speak, I thought it was boring, and said, "She didn't say anything."

Chen Fengling raised her eyes and glanced at her, "You better understand what you are doing, and you better not have thoughts that you shouldn't have." After speaking, he got up and left Ling Yuexuan.

Xu Jiaoyue rolled her eyes, and didn't take his words seriously, thinking that she would leave this ghostly place when her legs recovered.

……

On the second day, after Xu Miaoyin got up early in the morning and had breakfast with Xu Rennian, she returned to Lanyin Academy to take a look at the ledger sent yesterday.

When I turned to the second book, I found something was wrong just after reading a few pages. I opened the book I had read again, and I was even more puzzled. The two account books were exactly the same, but the difference was that the amounts on the books were different. She did the calculations separately, and there was a difference of nearly 3000 taels of silver. She then calculated the rest of the account books, and the result was the same.

It seems that someone moved the money, falsified the account books, and made two account books, the real one and the fake one. It's just that the fraudster was not smart enough to send the fake account book together.

Looking at the ledger spread out on the table, Xu Miaoyin was startled. It was as if all the money of the Xu family had been transferred. Who has such ability?

And it didn't happen overnight, who could do such a thing under Dad's nose?

She calculated the subsequent account books again, and the more she calculated, the more frightened she became, the Xu family's property had almost been transferred, and there was only an empty account left!
An empty account!
Xu Miaoyin trembled violently, and the image of her father being arrested and imprisoned flashed in her mind again.

It was because the Xu family had an empty account and couldn't come up with much money to turn around that they used Yanyin, and the disaster happened later!

Is the Xu family still doomed?

Xu Miaoyin was flustered for a moment, and her eyes turned red. She looked at the account book again, took a deep breath, and forced herself to calm down.

At this time, she can't be upset, Shuhuai is not here, and her father is also sick. She wants to find out who is trying to harm the Xu family.

Usually, the only people who can access the ledger are the people around my father, but who has such ability?
If this person knows the Xu family very well, can also get in touch with various industries of the Xu family at the same time, and can do these things without knowing it, who would it be?

What made her even more puzzled was, since this person is so shrewd, how could he send so many fake ledgers to her? Didn't he want to let herself know what he was doing?What is his purpose in doing this?
She looked at the account book again and again, trying to find clues from it, but she turned it over and over again, but found nothing.

At this time, Yuchun walked in, holding several ledgers in his hands, and seeing Xu Miaoyin's pale face, he asked, "Girl, what's wrong with you?"

Xu Miaoyin didn't answer, but seeing that she was holding the account book in her hand, she took it over and told Yuchun to go out first and close the door while looking at it.

Yuchun left the house in doubt, and closed the door as she said, but she was wondering what happened to the girl.

Xu Miaoyin in the room also went through the account books just brought over, these are all fake account books, only the account book sent yesterday contains real account books.

She looked at the ledgers carefully again, and found that the ink on the real ledgers seemed to have been around for a long time, and the paper was also yellow.

Looking at the time is indeed the record of the last two months, how could the paper be so old.

She flipped through it again, but found that a page seemed to have been torn out in the account book delivered today. She opened it carefully and found that a note was stuck inside. She carefully took it off and took a look.

A thin piece of paper read: Do you want to know the truth?

Xu Miaoyin's pupils shrank, she stood up abruptly, the note in her hand fell on the table, and her eyes fell on those words, which made her heart hurt suddenly, she held her heart, and breathed heavily , and sat back on the chair.

After an unknown period of time, the pain subsided.

She picked up the note, the handwriting on the note was very strange, who sent her the letter, what did this truth refer to?
She has to figure it out!
Xu Miaoyin carefully folded the note, hid it in her sleeve, stood up slowly, walked around the desk, opened the door and went out.

Seeing her coming out, Yuchun seemed to be going out, so she wanted to follow, but Xu Miaoyin stopped her with her hand, "I'm going to Minghui Hall, you don't have to follow."

After finishing speaking, Xu Miaoyin walked out of the courtyard alone.

Yuchun saw that something was wrong with her expression, and she was a little worried, but it was difficult to follow, and Yuqiu happened to go to the kitchen again, and she didn't even have anyone to discuss with.

Xu Miaoyin came all the way to Minghui Hall and went directly to the study room. She remembered that the boy who kept delivering the ledger was serving in the study room.

There were only a few servants of Saosa at the door of the study. Xu Miaoyin was about to push the door in, but the door opened from the inside.

It was Xu Ming who opened the door. Seeing Xu Miaoyin coming alone, he asked with a smile, "Why did the eldest girl come here? What are you looking for?"

Xu Ming only sold himself into the mansion in the past two years. Because of his literacy and cleverness, Xu Rennian let him serve by his side, so he had more contact with Xu Miaoyin. Every time Xu Rennian asked him to come to Lanyin Academy Rumor has it that he never looks directly at himself.

But now, it was the first time Xu Miaoyin saw him looking at her. His eyes reminded her of a person, the one who gave her a sword in the heart in the fire.

Xu Miaoyin was startled, and took a step back. Because she was standing on the stone steps, she felt that her feet were empty when she stepped back. She was about to fall backwards, but Xu Ming grabbed her wrist and pulled her back, waiting for her to stand still. , Xu Ming let go of his hand.

He was polite and distant, but he stopped looking into her eyes, and still smiled and said: "Miss, be careful, don't fall, the owner of the house is still waiting for the villain to serve you, please do as you please, the villain will not bother you."

After Xu Ming finished speaking, he left the study sideways and headed towards Xu Rennian's bedroom.

Xu Miaoyin clenched her hands tightly so as not to let herself tremble, she slowly turned and left Minghui Hall.

She was holding a note in her hand, which was put in her hand when Xu Ming pulled her just now, she held it tightly, and unconsciously walked to the wall of flowers planted by her father for her mother.

The flowers on the flower wall had already fallen into mud, and only some green branches were left entangled in it. Looking at the scattered flower branches, she seemed to have the courage, and slowly unfolded the note in her hand.

Seeing may not be believing!

There are only these six words on the paper, what does this mean?
What did Xu Ming want to tell himself?
The long-standing account book, two pieces of paper with unknown reasons, what is the truth, why seeing may not be the truth?
Xu Miaoyin kept repeating these three things in her mind, but couldn't figure it out.

Suddenly, some information flashed through her mind, and when she wanted to think about it, she couldn't catch it so fast.

"Ma'am, why are you here alone?"

Chen Fengling's voice sounded behind her.

Xu Miaoyin subconsciously stuffed the note into her sleeve, then turned to look at Chen Fengling, and said with a smile: "Oh, I'm going out to relax, sir, have you just finished class?"

Xu Miaoyin looked at the direction he came from, it should have just come from the side of the water pavilion.

Chen Fengling received the news from the secret guard that his wife went to the study alone, and then left the study with a strange expression and came to the garden. He was worried, so he came to have a look.

But Xu Miaoyin's face was a little pale, as if she had been frightened by something.

"Madam's face is pale, but what's wrong?" He asked tentatively.

Xu Miaoyin lowered her eyes, smiled, and said, "It's just that I've been in a bad mood recently, it's nothing serious."

"Looking at Madam's pale face, it's better to let people follow her. Anyway, there's nothing wrong now, how about sending Madam back to rest?" Chen Fengling asked with a smile. Although the words were asking, Xu Miaoyin felt a little tough.

"I'm fine. I'll go back after walking around in the garden, so don't bother Mr. Chen." Xu Miaoyin smiled and said lightly.

However, Chen Fengling said: "When Shuhuai was about to leave, I entrusted me to take care of the big and small affairs of the mansion. Since I agreed, I will help Shuhuai brother take care of one or two. Since I saw that my wife was unwell, although it was unreasonable, But you can't stand by and watch, if Madam is afraid of being discussed, then you will be in front and I will be behind, send Madam back, and I will leave immediately, what do you think?"

Xu Miaoyin's face turned completely cold. She didn't know why this Mr. Chen had to send her back, as if she didn't want to leave her alone.

Xu Miaoyin was not of the nature to argue with others, seeing that he would not give up until he sent her back, she turned and went back to Lanyin Academy.

Chen Fengling really followed her all the time, until she saw her enter the Lanyin Academy before turning around and leaving.

When Xu Miaoyin entered the Lanyin Academy, the two maids, Yuchun and Yuqiu, greeted her. Seeing her cold face, they didn't dare to ask anything, and wanted to follow her into the house to serve them, but Xu Miaoyin shut the two of them out. The two looked at each other, not knowing what happened, how could the girl be so angry.

Xu Miaoyin entered the inner room and put the two pieces of paper on the couch.

Do you want to know the truth?
Seeing may not be believing.

The handwriting on the two notes was exactly the same, and it seemed that they were both written by Xu Ming.

What is he trying to tell himself?
Why not tell her father, but tell her in this way?
What kind of truth needs to be conveyed to her in such a secret way?Or what made him tell her so cryptically?
Did someone spy on him and force him to do this?

There are countless guesses in Xu Miaoyin's heart, but she dare not let others know easily.

What she fears most in her heart is undoubtedly that the so-called truth is related to the destruction of the Xu family, and the death of her father and the fire of the Xu family will happen again.

She sat on the soft couch and stared blankly at the two notes, suddenly feeling powerless.

……

Chen Fengling stepped into Xu Rennian's bedroom and saw him lying on the bed fast asleep, so he walked to the bedside with his hands behind his back, "Stop pretending, it's me, get up, there's something wrong."

Qiao Zhi heard the sound on the bed, opened his eyes, and saw that it was Chen Fengling, so he sat up and asked, "What's the matter, look at your serious face."

Chen Fengling looked around the bedroom, but did not find Xu Ming, so she asked, "Xu Ming?"

Qiao Zhi didn't understand, so he replied: "Isn't Madam going to take care of the account book, I asked him to change the account book, what's the matter?"

Chen Fengling sat on the drum stool next to the bed, frowning slightly, "Today Madam went to the study alone, met Xu Ming, and then went to the garden alone and stood there for a long time, the secret guard came to report that he and Madam There is contact, but I don't know what they said, Madam's behavior is a bit weird."

Qiao Zhi heard it, and said with a smile: "I think it's something, Xu Ming has already told me that when Madam went to the study, she almost fell down, and he pulled her up, and then came to my place, don't be suspicious of."

Chen Fengling said again: "But I see Madam's face seems to be frightened."

Qiao Zhi rubbed his chin, pondered for a while, and said, "The madam must have recognized Xu Ming, right?"

Chen Fengling shivered, and said coldly: "It's possible, it's better not to let him appear in front of Madam again, if it brings back Madam's memory, then the loss outweighs the gain."

Qiao Zhi said helplessly: "I told the master a long time ago that others can pretend to be one-on-one, Xu Ming is fine, that was sent by Rong Guogong to kill Madam, but Master is afraid that Madam will suspect, so he found someone to disguise Xu Ming. bright."

Chen Fengling also shook his head helplessly, sighed and said: "Let's do this first, it will be fine when the master comes back."

"Hey, how is Yujing? Master should be back soon!" Qiao Zhi asked.

Chen Fengling never let go of her frowning eyebrows, and said: "The waterproofing of the Yellow River is being stepped up. The people recommended by the official department have some skills. The improved dams are much stronger. The urgent problem is the southwest side. The drought is too severe. I'm afraid It caused a popular uprising and said that troops would be sent, but there is still controversy over who should be chosen.”

"Hey, the common people are most afraid of natural disasters, this god is really dying from drought and flooding!" Qiao Zhi sighed.

Chen Fengling heard that what he said was outrageous, but she couldn't refute it, so she said: "Speak carefully!"

……

In the middle of the night, outside the bedroom of the Wuji Palace in Yujing, two small yellow gatekeepers on duty were standing and taking a nap, one of them bumped his head against the edge of the gate, and woke up in a daze, rubbing his head, as if he heard a cry of exclamation When the sound came from the hall, he jolted violently, woke up his companions, pushed the door lightly and went in, wanting to go to the inner hall to see if His Majesty was busy.

As soon as he walked to the entrance of the inner hall, he heard a cold shout from the inner hall, "Get out!" The two little yellow doors were frightened, and they responded repeatedly, exited the bedroom, and closed the door.

In the inner hall, Fang Shuhuai was sitting on the dragon bed, with cold sweat on his forehead, and the pajamas on his body were also wet with sweat, his chest heaved violently, and there was an uncontrollable look of horror in his eyes.

He rubbed his forehead, and the scene of Xu Miaoyin falling from the tower still lingered in his mind.

He hasn't had this dream for a long time. Why did he suddenly dream of this? Could it be that something happened in Yangzhou?

(End of this chapter)