Ning Dao Covered with Snow

Chapter 86 Chaolu Returns
Yan Ciwan's eyes were full of pleading: "Chaolu is not only my friend, she is also Xiao Liulang's fiancée, and she is also the future granddaughter-in-law of Lord Xiao. Even if it's just for the sake of Xiao Liulang and Lord Xiao, please help find Chaolu, please!"

Although Xiao Wang and Chao Lu have decided to cancel their engagement, the matter has not been announced to the public, so Si Buping does not know about it yet.

Si Buping looked at Xiao Wang, who looked helpless: "I have been looking for Chao Erniang everywhere these days. If I can't find her safely, I'm afraid I will never be able to rest in peace in this life. I hope the Grand Master can lend a hand."

After saying this, he stood up and bowed to Si Buping. His attitude could be said to be very sincere.

"Xiao Liulang has deep feelings for Chao Erniang. In that case, I will try to help you find her."

As soon as Si Buping finished speaking, Yan Ciwan stood up, saluted towards Si Buping with her arms crossed, and spoke loudly.

"Thank you, Grand Lord!"

"I only said I agreed to help find the person, but I don't guarantee that I can find him. You don't have to thank me so early."

Yan Ciwan smiled brightly: "I believe that the chief will be able to find the person back!"

In response to her trust, Si Buping smiled noncommittally and said, "Now you can tell me the clues you found in Haoyuezhai, right?"

Yan Ci Wan got the promise she wanted and no longer hesitated. She immediately told him the secret door she found in the floor tiles under the bed in the secret room.

"If you want to open that floor tile, you must use a key. The key should be known only to Governor Qi, but he may not be willing to tell the truth."

Si Buping was very confident about this: "I will personally interrogate the governor of Qi later. You don't need to worry about what happens next. You can go back."

Yan Ciwan and Xiao Wang said goodbye and left together.

After the two of them left, Si Buping also stepped out of the banquet hall. He whispered a few words to the guards guarding the door.

The inner guards took the order and left.

Speaking of Yan Ciwan, she and Xiao Wang walked through the wind and rain corridor and headed towards the gate of the governor's mansion.

At this time, the Governor's Mansion had been completely controlled by the Internal Guards. The entire mansion was extremely quiet. Only the lanterns hanging in the corridor reminded them that tonight was the Mid-Autumn Festival, a good day for family reunions.

Xiao Wang had a lot of questions to ask, but he knew that there were guards hidden everywhere in the mansion, so he could only remain silent the whole time.

When the two men stepped over the high threshold and walked out of the gate of the governor's mansion, they saw a carriage parked at the foot of the steps.

Cha Bingliang was sitting on the shaft of the carriage. When he saw Yan Ciwan and Xiao Wang coming out, he immediately jumped off the carriage and called out happily, "Xiao Liulang, Madam Ning!"

The window of the carriage was pushed open and Chaolu's head popped out.

When she saw Yan Ciwan, her eyes suddenly lit up.

"Aci!"

Then she jumped out of the car, lifting her skirt, and ran towards Yan Ciwan. However, because she was too excited and didn't pay attention to the road, she accidentally tripped over the steps and fell forward.

At the critical moment, Yan Ciwan reached out and held her steadily.

Just at this moment, someone was setting off fireworks in the distance, sparks bloomed in the night, and in an instant, the sky was filled with fireworks, dazzling and brilliant.

Chaolu raised her head and gave Yan Ciwan an embarrassed smile: "Luckily you supported me, otherwise I would have been embarrassed."

Yan Ci Wan looked at her face and suddenly remembered the strange dream that could predict the future.

In the dream, after Chaolu poisoned her father and brother, she was condemned by thousands of people. In despair, she committed suicide by taking poison. When she fell down due to the poison, Yan Ciwan reached out his hand to her, wanting to catch her, but Chaolu went straight through her hand and fell weakly to the ground.

It was the Mid-Autumn Festival, with lights in every home, and it was just her and her.

The scene in the dream overlapped with reality at this moment, causing Yan Ciwan to feel dazed for a moment.

"Aci, what's wrong with you?" Chaolu called her several times after she stood firm. Seeing that she looked dazed, she couldn't help feeling worried.

Yan Ciwan came back to her senses and subconsciously held the other person's hand tightly. In her dream, she failed to catch Chaolu and could only be a bystander, watching Chaolu die in despair. But now she caught Chaolu, and Chaolu stood in front of her alive. Not only that, Liu was also still alive.

Tragedy is not unchangeable, their destiny can be controlled by themselves.

Yan Ciwan smiled sincerely: "That's great!"

Zhaolu thought she was talking about the reunion and immediately nodded in agreement: "Yes, it's really great to see you again!"

After not seeing her for three days, Chaolu looked a little thinner, but fortunately she was in good spirits. It seemed that she had been doing well in the past three days and was not tortured.

Yan Ciwan asked curiously, "Why are you here?"

Chaolu explained.

"It was the inner guards who found me. They sent me here and told me to wait for Xiao Liulang. But I ran into Li Sanlang and Liang Bo by accident."

Yan Ciwan couldn't help but look at the two guards guarding the door of the governor's mansion.

Si Buping had just agreed to help find Chaolu, and only a cup of tea had passed before the person was sent to them. This efficiency was too amazing.

At this time, another person got out of the carriage, it was Li Chengge.

Because today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, he deliberately wore a moon-white round-necked shirt, which, with his handsome face, gave him a rather elegant and graceful demeanor.

He walked over and looked Xiao Wang up and down, and seeing that he was safe and sound, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Cousin, you really scared me to death. You sent me a letter earlier, saying that something might happen in the governor's mansion tonight. If you haven't come out of the governor's mansion by midnight, I will have to find a way to save you. I immediately rushed here to wait for more than an hour after receiving the letter. Do you know how I managed to survive for more than an hour? If something really happens to you, how can I explain to my grandfather and uncle?"

It is rare to see Li Chengge speak so many words in one breath. On weekdays he is always lazy and doesn't even bother to talk much. It is obvious that he was really scared tonight.

Xiao Wang apologized to him: "It's my fault. I made you worry."

Li Chengge didn't really blame him. He waved his hand to indicate that as long as his cousin was safe, everything would be fine.

This is not the place to talk, so the four of them got into the carriage, with Cha Bingliang driving.

The carriage moved steadily along the street.

Inside the car, Yan Ciwan asked Chaolu where she had been in the past two days and why she disappeared.
"Three nights ago, Wei Fazuo sent me back home. I saw A Niang and found that there was something wrong with her condition. She didn't have a common cold, but more like someone had poisoned her. I asked A Niang about the truth of her illness. A Niang refused to tell me at first, but later she couldn't persuade me anymore and had to tell me the truth. It turned out that the person who poisoned her was my father, because she knew a secret of my father, and my father wanted to kill her to silence her."

Li Chengge couldn't help but ask: "What secret does your father have?"

"My father once killed his first wife, Fang. My mother found out about this, so he wanted to do it again. He wanted my mother to die quietly from illness like Fang did."

Speaking of this, Chao Lu felt very upset. Even though she knew that Chao Yuanzhi was not a good person, she didn't expect that he could be so cruel as to even harm his first wife.

Her father wanted to kill her mother, and she could not accept such a cruel truth.

Yan Ciwan asked Li Chengge not to interrupt, and she spoke to Chaolu in a gentle voice.

"The Inner Guards have already learned about Chao Yuanzhi's attempt to murder Fang. He will investigate the case thoroughly. Your mother is safe now."

Chaolu opened her eyes wide in astonishment. She had not expected that the Internal Guards could handle cases so efficiently.

Yan Ciwan then asked: "How did you leave the palace afterwards? And how did you disappear?"

Chaolu calmed herself down and continued to narrate her experience.

"Aniang said that she knew there was a secret compartment in my father's study. She had sneaked into my father's study to find evidence of my father's murder in order to force him to sign the divorce agreement. However, there was no evidence of my father's murder in the secret compartment. There was only a blank tablet and a copy of the "Rebirth Sutra" written by my father himself. Aniang returned empty-handed. She had to accept her fate, but she didn't want me to die with her, so she asked me to leave the palace before my father and brother came back. I didn't want to accept my fate. I wanted to save Aniang. I pretended to obey Aniang's words and left, but in my heart I planned to go to the official post to ask for your help. As a result, I was knocked unconscious from behind just after I left the palace. When I woke up, I found myself locked in a small room with the doors and windows locked. I couldn't see the outside. Every day someone stuffed food into a small hole in the wall. I tried my best to escape but couldn't, until just now, the door was suddenly kicked open and the inner guards rushed in and rescued me."

　These two chapters have been revised several times, so it is even later, sorry~
　　
　
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