The slave family is not a disaster

Chapter 220 The Murderer

after dawn

Xiao Lian, the little girl from Qingqian Garden, ran over to Chunxiao Pavilion: "Xiao Rong, is the princess up yet?"

"Well, wake up, the princess is combing her hair."

"Okay, then I'll go in and look for the concubine." It was obvious that Xiao Lian was very anxious. The relationship between this girl and Xiao Rong was pretty good before, and she usually seemed to be quite safe, but suddenly she became a different person.

"Good luck, princess." Xiao Lian rushed upstairs regardless, Xiao Guang was combing Ye Anran's hair, Xiao Lian knelt down in a panic to pay her respects.

"Ah, it's Xiaolian, get up." Seeing that it was a maidservant, Ye Anran smiled friendly.

"Thank you, Madam Princess."

"Xiao Lian, do you have anything to do with me so early?" Ye Anran was a little strange, Qingqian usually came alone, why did she send Xiao Lian here so early today?
"My lord, my master...is missing." Xiao Lian's face was anxious.

"Missing? What's going on?" Ye Anran immediately turned to the side and asked, regardless of the unfinished hair.

"I don't know what's wrong, I don't know what happened. I fell asleep when I was on duty yesterday. When I got up this morning, the master disappeared."

"Ah, it should be all right, you didn't look elsewhere, the palace is so big?" Ye Anran breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was no big deal.

But Xiao Lian seemed to be about to cry out anxiously: "Wang Concubine, I have searched for all the slaves and maidservants, and the entire palace, but there is still nothing."

"Then will she go shopping? Or go back to her mother's house?" Ye Anran said to the bronze mirror.

"No, my master never likes to go out, let alone go out to buy things so early, and it is even impossible to go back to her mother's house. Since the master came to Rui'an Palace for three years, he has never been back. They're all broken." Xiao Lian is Sima Qingqian's confidant, because she has been with her for a long time, so she knows a lot.

"En? Where is that?" Now, Ye Anran also began to feel a little uneasy.

"Princess and master, it's done." Xiaoguang was ingenious, and combed Ye Anran with a flying bun, making her look gentle and charming.

"Well, then I'll go down and see what's going on, and send someone out to look for it." Sima Qingqian's disappearance in the morning caught Ye Anran by surprise.

So she walked down the stairs and found Nie Tian. After explaining the matter, she ordered: "You go and send people from the palace to look for him and see if Qingqian is there."

"Yes." Nie Tian received the order, transferred a few elite guards and left the palace.

At this time, Mrs. Jing came out of Jing Garden in a red brocade robe with a lazy face: "Oh, what's going on today, it's so lively? Why are there so many people around here?"

"Ah, Qingqian is gone, so I sent someone to look for it." Ye Anran said slowly.

"Ah? Is that so? Why is the good guy still gone?" Mrs. Jing pretended to be surprised.

"Maybe she's gone out?" Ye Anran was always thinking about the bright side.

"Oh, I hope so." After Madam Jing responded, she went to the front hall for dinner.

Because Ye Anran felt uneasy and didn't care about eating, she had been waiting for news from Nie Tian.

Three hours later, Nie Tian came back and replied: "My concubine, my subordinates have searched all over Bianjing, but there is no whereabouts of my concubine."

Upon hearing these words, Xiao Lian was so frightened that she wanted to cry: "Princess Wangfei, do you think our master will... encounter any accident?"

"No, Xiao Lian, don't think wildly, Qingqian is such a nice person, how could he have enemies, maybe he went somewhere and didn't say hello to everyone." Ye Anran comforted Xiao Lian and comforted herself at the same time.

In fact, at this time, she has already started to feel uneasy, which is too abnormal. When Sima Qingqian is most negative, she is bedridden at most, but she has never been so missing before. She vaguely remembers that Sima Qingqian once said, She has no home anymore, the prince took her in, so the palace is her home.

Where can she go then?Ye Anran thought about it, but still couldn't find any clues. Nie Tian then sent some guards of the palace to look for it, but they still found nothing.

At noon, when Jue Xigong came back from the imperial court, several guards behind him walked in carrying something on straw mats.

"My lord, you are back, and my concubine is looking for you. Qingqian is missing, and I can't find anyone now. What should I do?" Ye Anran saw that Xi Gongjue had returned, and immediately went up and told the matter. I read it again, but I didn't notice that Nishinomiya Jue's expression was a little weird.

After hearing this, Nishinomiya-jue just remained silent, and then pointed behind him...

"What do you mean? Your lord?" Ye Anran was at a loss.

"She's there." Jue Nishinomiya's voice was hoarse, and even his fingers were trembling slightly.

Ye Anran walked behind him, and several guards had already put down the scroll. After the scroll was opened, it was slowly pulled away. Inside lay Sima Qingqian in a blue brocade robe, probably because of being soaked in water. After holding it for too long, his entire face was swollen, and what was even more frightening was that his chest was pierced by a sharp weapon, and the blood had turned dark red into his green shirt.

"Ah... Qingqian?" After Ye Anran exclaimed, her body was on the verge of falling, fortunately she was hugged by Jue Xigong, otherwise she would have fallen heavily to the ground.

"An Ran, are you okay?" Jue Nishinomiya asked with concern while hugging her.

"Qingqian...what's the matter?" Ye Anran only felt that her mind was a little blank, and she couldn't even speak fluently as usual.

"She died. After someone pierced her chest with a sword, she was thrown into the lake. I didn't know until she floated up and was found and sent to the government." Xi Gongjue was obviously not as surprised as Ye Anran, but Slightly sad.

"How is it possible? I don't believe it, this person must not be Qingqian, they made a mistake, right?" Ye Anran said anxiously, grabbing Xi Gongjue's hand.

"An Ran, calm down, she...is just Qingqian, she is...dead." Xi Gongjue spoke very slowly, and it was obvious that he was a little choked up.

"Master, what's wrong with you? Master, my master, ah...you wake up." Xiao Lian rushed over first, hugged Sima Qingqian's body and began to cry loudly. The crowd also began to cry softly. Unlike Siyan, she was hated by thousands of people, and she offended many people by saving money, so she died when she died. But Sima Qingqian is a person who is very indifferent to fame and fortune. He usually treats his servants well, but it's a pity to die like this.

Listening to Xiaolian's grief-stricken cries, no one was talking, they were all silent...

After a while, Xi Gongjue turned around and said: "Build a coffin, this king wants a generous burial."

"Yes." The guards took the order and started to do it. Ye Anran suffered a lot of blows and had no strength in his body. He was helped back to Chunxiao Pavilion by Xi Gongjue.

During the period, Mrs. Jing and Xiangyi also came out and cried for a while. Although it was a cat crying and a mouse pretending to be merciful, the scene is still important.

Last night, Sima Qingqian discovered Mrs. Jing's secret, so in order not to reveal her feet, she finally ordered Peng Cheng to kill Sima Qingqian and throw him into the lake.

Unexpectedly, the corpse floated up so quickly...

Chunxiao Pavilion

Xi Gongjue has been with Ye Anran all the time, and has been comforting her: "Anran, you are dead, so don't be sad. Qingqian and I have known each other for many years, and I feel uncomfortable, but no matter what we do, we can't Redeem what, understand? You are not in good health, you have to take care of yourself. "

"My lord, Qingqian has always loved you the most, but you broke her heart." Ye Anran burst into tears.

"I know."

"At the beginning, why did you do that? Did you really abandon Qingqian because of Mrs. Jing?" Ye Anran has always wanted to ask this question but dared not.

It was less than a month after Sima Qingqian was canonized as a concubine, Xi Gongjue quelled the chaos in the north and brought back a woman from Jinzhou, Peach Blossom. Afterwards, he was canonized as Mrs. Jing and loved him so much. From that day on, Sima Qingqian seemed to be forgotten From then on, she became seriously ill and was bedridden until a few months ago, after Siyan died, Ye Anran went to persuade her, and she gradually got better and let go of her knots, but she didn't want to have this kind of thing happen again.

Although it is impossible to say that Ye Anran knows Xi Gongjue well, but he can feel that he is not the kind of man who meets with different thoughts, and he doesn't care about himself, let alone Sima Qingqian, the granddaughter of his mentor?
"An Ran, this...you won't understand, it's too complicated, and I can't explain it for a while. I didn't mean to blame Qingqian. I snubbed her to protect her. That woman is dangerous, you won't understand " Xi Gongjue showed pain on his face, perhaps, the woman he was most sorry for in his life was Sima Qingqian.

This woman who had loved him all her life, but in the end she didn't win his heart, was favored at the beginning because of a momentary anger with Ye Anran.

"I understand what you said. The dangerous woman you mentioned is Mrs. Jing, right?" Ye Anran was not stupid. She quietly observed and analyzed carefully. She should have discovered that Mrs. Jing was not an ordinary character long ago.

"You know her?" Nishinomiya was also a little surprised.

"I think...you have no reason to favor that woman. At first I thought it was because she looked like the empress, but then I found out that you no longer have that kind of enthusiasm for the empress, let alone her alone. It's hard to justify a substitute, so I guess, Mrs. Jing may not be an ordinary woman, you have always known her identity, but you have always been a tiger, right?" Ye Anran said these words that made Nishinomiya look at him with admiration.

"An Ran, I'm not breeding tigers for trouble. I didn't have the right time to make a move. She has her use value." Now that the words have been spoken, Nishinomiya-jue is not hiding anything.

"What about this time? Can't you do it yet? Don't tell me that Qingqian's death has nothing to do with that woman?" Ye Anran thought of a few days ago, when a black shadow floated by his window, trying to lure him He went out, but was stopped by Nie Tian.

A few days later, Mrs. Jing led him out again in a red dress. These things were not accidental. Xi Gongjue knew that Nie Tian should protect him, which proved that he knew that woman was dangerous, so this time Qingqian had an accident. Probably not a coincidence.

"This time, it should be her." Xi Gongjue has been sending people to protect Ye Anran tightly, because he found out that Mrs. Jing was going to attack Anran, but he didn't expect that she would point the finger at the unknown Qingqian, which made Ye Anran He was a little surprised.

In fact, it is not difficult to imagine that Mrs. Jing has no intention of killing Qingqian. In her heart, Ye Anran is the number one public enemy, but Sima Qingqian has doubts about her, found her whereabouts, and found her meeting with Pengcheng. So had to kill.

At this time, Xiao Lian suddenly broke in: "My lord, you must avenge my master, this servant knows who killed her."

Hearing this, both Xi Gongjue and Sima Qingqian were taken aback...

(End of this chapter)