The next day, Zhang Miaosheng really appeared.

After seeing Zhang Ziyan, he didn't say much, just stepped forward quickly and hugged her tightly. Zhang Ziyan didn't say a word and let him hug him, and his body didn't move like a puppet.

Lin Qing, who was on the side, was so anxious that he beat the drum, couldn't even Zhang Miaosheng help Ziyan?

"Don't be afraid of the smoke, I'm here." Zhang Miaosheng spoke slowly, and his voice was extremely magnetic. This magnetism is because he was woken up in the middle of the night last night, and he didn't sleep well and his voice was hoarse. The day before yesterday, he was ordered by the housekeeper of Zhang's mansion to go to the suburbs to collect rent, and he happened to have an entanglement with a tenant, so he stayed in the inn. I didn't expect that there was a person who visited the inn at night last night, and told him that the servants of Zhang's Mansion were almost dead, the eldest master Zhang Jingde died on the street, and the second lady Zhang Ziyan was frightened and fainted on the spot.

He didn't care about other things, but if it was about purple smoke, he couldn't put it aside.

Zhang Ziyan looked at Lin Qing, then at Zhang Miaosheng, and suddenly closed his eyes and cried: "Brother Miaosheng......"

"I'm here, I'm here." Zhang Miaosheng caressed Zhang Ziyan's back, but there was not much pity on his face.

It seemed that the sorrow that had been pent up for many days suddenly found an outpouring opening, and Zhang Ziyan's tears flowed more and more violently.

Seeing this scene, Lin Qing felt a little calmer. "Okay, just cry out." She didn't want to stay in the house anymore to disturb Ziyan and pour out her thoughts, so she only whispered this, and then beckoned the maids in the house to leave together.

For several days, Zhao Mingsong stayed in the yamen of Muhe Town to investigate the case painstakingly, Jiang Shao did not know where to go, and Ning Canglan had not appeared since he met in the night that day. The surrounding environment suddenly turned from noisy to quiet, which also gave Lin Qing the energy to think about stealing the edict of the previous emperor.

Although she has not been with Zhao Mingsong for a long time, she has a vague impression in her mind, according to Zhao Mingsong's temperament, she will definitely not take the edict with her and run around. Lin Qing carefully observed, and the place where Zhao Mingsong went the most except for Zhao's house was the yamen, so she decided to conduct a search activity in Zhao's house first.

Although Lin Qing didn't even let go of the cracks in the stones under his feet, he found the gardens one by one, but he didn't get any results.

"Maple Creek Garden?" Lin Qing looked up at the plaque engraved with these three words, and thought to himself, isn't this the garden where Jiang Shao, the disciple of Deng, lived? "Anyone?" She knocked on the door but didn't see any movement in the garden, and after pushing the door open, Lin Qing didn't bother to enjoy the scenery in the Maple Creek Garden, so she just went straight to the inner room.

"Ahh It was a woman's shrill shout. Lin Qing covered his ears, and it took him a while to realize that the scream came from his mouth.

"You...... Why are you here? Lin Qing was shocked and angry, and there was a person lying on the carved wooden bed. After a closer look, I realized that this person was Jiang Shao, who had not been where he had been going for many days. It was obviously not time to go to bed at this hour, and why shouldn't he have knocked on the door by himself? He must have done it on purpose!

"I should be the one who should ask this, why are you here?" Jiang Shao lay on the bed calmly, his long eyebrows stretched, his face was full of playful smiles, and he didn't mean to get up at all. "Last time I said I was going to spy on you day and night, but I wouldn't follow you except when you were sleeping and bathing. Why, are you getting revenge on me? ”

Lin Qing was short of words for a while, "I ......"

"Do you want me to ask you out?" Jiang Shao's tone suddenly became stern, with a bit of a posture of mountain rain coming.

"If you don't work for the Jiang guards, I'll go by myself!" Lin Qing was furious, but he couldn't find a reason to refute Jiang Shao, so he had to leave Fengxi Garden with a disgraced expression.

Lin Qing naturally didn't know that Jiang Shao had been silently monitoring her in the dark for the past few days. Seeing her rummaging around in Zhao's house, he started to scare her. Today, while she was still searching in other gardens, he had quickly returned to Fengxi Garden and lay down on the bed, just waiting for Lin Qingxun to scare her when he entered the inner room.

At this moment, it seems that his purpose has been achieved. However, seeing Lin Qing deflated, Jiang Shao's heart was not as happy as he imagined, but became more and more sad.

When Lu Chengxuan returned to Beijing, Jiang Shao wanted to go back with him, but he stayed in Muhe Town because of the search for the edict. Originally, he should have investigated everywhere to find the whereabouts of the edict, but in fact he did, and it turned out that he had no gain. However, seeing Lin Qing's abnormal behavior, the first thing he thought of was that she was also looking for the emperor's edict. But it stands to reason that Lin Qing is just a little maid, how could she be involved in the matter of the edict? Unless......

Unless, Lin Qing was instructed to search for the edict.

Prime Minister Zhao Huai was killed seven years ago, his daughter Zhao Muxi committed suicide by jumping off a cliff, and his son Zhao Mingsong retired to the rivers and lakes. Since then, there have been rumors in the capital that the former emperor had privately handed over an edict to Zhao Huai, and the content of the edict was related to the throne. Now that the former emperor has died, the new emperor is riddled with illness and worries about his life at any time, and although he has a group of concubines but no heirs, the throne is extremely unstable.

The second prince Lu Chengxiu and the third prince Lu Chengxuan are the hot candidates for the throne of the dynasty.

Lu Chengxuan was led to Muhe Town to look for Zhao Muxi, but happened to meet Lin Qing, who had a similar face to Zhao Muxi, and almost recognized the wrong person. Lin Qing's appearance disturbed Lu Chengxuan's restlessness, making him almost forget about the qiē he was carrying, and he almost didn't want to return to Beijing. This qiē, if it is deliberately arranged, is not unreasonable.

"Lin Qing, what is your identity......" Jiang Shao couldn't help but sigh.

Lin Qing, who was away from Fengxi Garden, did not go far, and there was nowhere to vent the anger in her heart, so she had to break a branch of orchid and ravage it in her hand. "Dead Jiang Shao, stinky Jiang Shao! Unexpectedly...... It scared me. ”

The more Lin Qing thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, this Jiang Shao came and went without a trace, but he was lying on the bed with such confidence, as if he had expected her to go in.

Today, she worked hard for half a day without yielding, and when she was about to be angry with Jiang Shao, Lin Qing was so angry that she couldn't help but stomp her feet, "Jiang Shao, I'm unlucky to meet you!" ”

Lin Qing wanted to go to the pavilion in the center of the garden to sit, but from a distance, he saw Zhang Ziyan and Zhang Miaosheng snuggling together, and Lin Qing, who didn't want to be a hindrance, had to silently dispel the idea of going to the garden.

"Lin Qing." A familiar female voice suddenly sounded behind her.

"Zhang Qiuli?" Lin Qing turned around and saw that the person who came was actually Zhang Qiuli. Today, she is dressed in linen clothes, with a few plain white flowers in her black hair, which is very different from the way she used to look when she was in Zhangfu all day long with heavy makeup and brocade clothes. As the saying goes, her daughter is pretty and filial, but Zhang Qiuli, who is dressed in filial piety, looks very beautiful.

Without waiting for Lin Qing to react, Zhang Qiuli knelt straight in front of her. At this moment, her face was pale, her eyes were slightly swollen, and she looked particularly pitiful. "I've never begged anyone, but this time I really can't do anything else, because there's no better person to help me with this except you."

"What are you doing here?" Lin Qing looked at Zhang Qiuli coldly, not knowing what trick she was playing.

"My father died, and Zhang's house was burned beyond recognition. Originally, Ziyan and I could go to the Xu family, but Ziyan was not born to my mother, and I was afraid that the Xu family would not treat her well, so I wanted you to help me take care of Ziyan for a while. ”

Lin Qing was extremely surprised when she heard this, she had never had a good impression of Zhang Qiuli, but she didn't expect Zhang Qiuli to kneel down to her for the sake of purple smoke today. For a while, Lin Qing's heart was full of mixed feelings, "How you humiliated Ziyan in the past, you don't need me to remind you to know." Now you have come to beg me to take care of her, aren't you a weasel who is uneasy and kind to the chickens! I have a lot of affection for Ziyan, and I don't need you to say that I will do my best to take care of her. ”

"That's good, Ziyan will be handed over to you." Zhang Qiuli kowtowed to Lin Qing, and then stood up on her own. "There are some things that I can't explain, and you won't listen to them if you think about them. I'm going to leave Muhe Town today, and if Ziyan asks me about my whereabouts, you will say that you don't know either. ”

Zhang Qiuli said and glanced at Zhang Ziyan in the pavilion in the distance, with a smile on her face that she didn't know whether to be relieved or sad, "That's it, Ziyan, I'm afraid she doesn't dislike me less than you, she...... She's probably just thinking of me as an inconsequential person......"

Leaving Muhe Town, where she had lived for seventeen years, Zhang Qiuli was naturally reluctant in her heart, but she had no choice! The white-haired man she met yesterday actually found her in front of her room today, and said categorically that he could help her find the real culprit who killed her father's enemy and set fire to Zhang's mansion, on the condition that she become his subordinate.

Zhang Qiuli has always been a bold woman, isn't she just the white-haired man's subordinate, she is not afraid at all. In order to avenge the murder of her father and the destruction of her family, and in order to find the murderer as soon as possible to prevent the murderer from hurting Ziyan, it doesn't hurt to suffer some hardships and torture, as long as Ziyan is comfortable and comfortable, she will have no regrets!

"Master Zhang is dead, as a daughter, you should keep filial piety for him for three years, why are you ......?"

Without waiting for Lin Qing to finish speaking, Zhang Qiuli turned around and walked away. Her back was thin and small, but there was a sense of determination.