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When Yang Ning entered the courtyard, he had an ominous premonition, and when he kicked open the door, he only hoped that he had guessed wrong, and when he entered the house, he swept over and found that Gu Qinghan was not in the room. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This room is not big, it is clear at a glance, above the incense, the brocade is lifted aside, and you can see at a glance that there is no one on the bed.

Although Gu Qinghan was not there, her dress was put aside, Yang Ning's expression was grim, he walked over quickly, and reached out to touch the brocade quilt, which was cold and had no temperature, which meant that Gu Qinghan was no longer in this house.

When he turned around, he saw the two maids standing at the door, and when he saw that there was no trace of Gu Qinghan in the house, both of them also showed a look of horror.

"Let me ask you, is this the clothes that the third lady changed last night?" Yang Ning pointed to the dresses.

A maid hurriedly said: "Last night we served the third lady to bathe and change clothes, and these are the clothes that the third lady changed last night." ”

Yang Ning's heart sank even more.

Although he planned for the worst, he still hoped that everything would not be as he thought, and he hoped that Gu Qinghan would just go out by himself, but with these few changes of clothes here, this possibility is almost non-existent.

It was impossible for Gu Qinghan to walk out of the room without even wearing a dress.

"You stayed in the yard last night and didn't hear any movement in this house?" Yang Ning stared at the two maids and said in a deep voice: "Apart from you, who else came last night?" ”

The two maids had already knelt on the ground and said in horror: "Back to the world, the third lady rested very early last night, and the lights in the house were blown out by the third lady herself, and we took turns to stay outside, and no one else came." He added: "The house has always been quiet, and when we invited the third lady to dinner in the morning, the third lady did not agree. ”

Yang Ning knew that it was the season of autumn and winter, and it was quite cold at night, so it was impossible for Gu Qinghan to sleep at night without covering the quilt, if she didn't leave for a long time, then there must still be temperature in the bedding, but now the futon was cold, which could only mean that Gu Qinghan had left last night.

I kicked open the door just now, and obviously felt that the door was bolted from the inside, so it was naturally impossible for Gu Qinghan to leave through the door.

He looked around, the front window was closed tightly, and it was also buckled from the inside, and it was naturally impossible to leave from the front window, he walked to the back window, which was a high-push window, and it usually needed to be supported with a wooden stick to open it, and the wooden stick was dropped on the ground at this time, but the window bolt was not buckled, Yang Ning pushed the window slightly, and looked carefully at the window edge, but found that the window sill had some fine powder, the color was slightly yellow, his fingers were dipped a little, and he put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed, there was a faint fragrance, and the taste was already very light, but when he entered the nose, Yang Ning felt that his head was a little dizzy.

A chill crossed his eyes.

In an instant, he understood that this powder was very likely to be a misty incense that made people unconscious, and the misty incense powder was left on the windowsill, so the misty incense from last night was naturally used to deal with Gu Qinghan.

Gu Qinghan must have been invaded by the incense, lost consciousness, and then was secretly taken away from the back window.

He climbed out of the window and crouched down to examine the ground, and there were indeed footprints in the dirt behind him, although they were shallow, but they could still be seen on closer inspection.

Yang Ning followed the footprints and searched forward for a while, the footprints became lighter and fainter, and in the end, he was no longer visible, and the clue was broken.

Yang Ning was silent for a moment, got up and returned to the house, saw that the two maids were still there, and ordered, "You go and call everyone in the old mansion to the lobby now." ”

The maid hurriedly retreated and went to gather everyone in the old mansion.

Yang Ning searched the house and found no other clues, he knew that he had to remain absolutely calm at this time.

Gu Qinghan was kidnapped, what is his purpose, and there are any possibilities, but one thing he can be sure of is that this kind of strangeness must be related to the old mansion.

Although he has a general understanding of the Qi family, as a huge family, he doesn't know much about the Qi family's past grievances and hatreds.

The Qi family has a wide range of contacts in the military, which is naturally the advantage of the Qi family, but the two generations of Jinyi Marquis are veterans of the battlefield, and the killings are countless, and the grudges are countless, even in the land of Jiangling, although it is called the foundation of the Qi family, it may not be without enemies.

He only hoped that robbing Gu Qinghan's opponent was just for money or even other interests, not to covet Gu Qinghan's beauty, with Gu Qinghan's temperament, once she was humiliated, if others didn't kill her, she would definitely not live.

On the contrary, since it was just to rob Gu Qinghan, it showed that Gu Qinghan's life should not be in danger for a while, otherwise if the other party wanted to kill, there was no need to take Gu Qinghan away, since he could enter the house and rob Gu Qinghan, it would be easy to kill her here.

When Yang Ning arrived at the lobby, more than a dozen people up and down the old mansion were waiting, but the three guards who followed Yang Ning to Jiangling were all standing outside the door with swords.

Seeing Yang Ning come in, everyone knelt down, Yang Ning glanced at everyone, they were all maids and servants, only Zhao Yuan in the account room looked special, and said straight to the point: "The third lady is gone, have any of you seen her today?" ”

Everyone was stunned, Yang Ning raised his hand and motioned for everyone to get up, after everyone got up, they all lowered their heads and didn't dare to speak, Yang Ning frowned, and said coldly: "Ask you, can anyone see the third lady today?" ”

Seeing that Shizi was angry, everyone hurriedly shook their heads, and Wei Tong said: "Shizi, I haven't seen the third lady come out to eat since the morning, and the kitchen has been waiting, and there are people watching the front and back doors, and I haven't seen the third lady go out." ”

Yang Ning groaned slightly, his eyes fell on Zhao Yuan in the account room, seeing that Zhao Yuan was still calm and relaxed at the moment, and did not look flustered, he asked coldly: "Mr. Zhao, how long have you been in the old mansion?" ”

"Back to the world, Zhao has been managing accounts in the old mansion for three years." Zhao Yuan arched his hand and said: "At that time, it was the busy autumn season, the former account office was old, and the manager of Qi asked Zhao to come over to help, originally just to help on the side, but the old account room was old and his energy was limited, so the head of Qi gave him a sum of silver and let Zhao take over the affairs of the account room." ”

Yang Ning's eyebrows tightened, and he said "oh", "You were hired by Qi Cheng?" ”

"Exactly!" Zhao Yuan said respectfully.

Yang Ning walked slowly in front of Zhao Yuan, looked up and down, and suddenly, everyone only saw a flash of the knife, and a cold and shining blade had already pressed against Zhao Yuan's throat, Zhao Yuan was shocked, and said in a lost voice: "Shizi, you ......!" "Everyone else never imagined that the prince would suddenly make a move, and they were all shocked.

"This son has never liked nonsense." Yang Ning said lightly: "Mr. Zhao, please tell this prince, where is the third lady now?" ”

"Third lady?" Zhao Yuan looked frightened, and said with a wry smile: "Shizi, Zhao is just an account room, food and accommodation are on the account room, sometimes three or five days do not go out a step, from last night to just now, Zhao also stayed at home, if it was not for the summons of the prince, Zhao may not come out today, and Zhao does not know how to calculate yin and yang, how can I know where the third lady is?" ”

Wei Tong said on the side: "Shizi, Mr. Zhao does stay at home on weekdays. ”

"Mr. Zhao's psychological quality is really good." Yang Ning didn't pay attention to it, but said lightly: "Ordinary people are suddenly blocked by a knife, and their reaction will never be as calm as you." ”

Zhao Yuan sighed: "The prince praised it, if Zhao did something wrong, although the prince punished, it was so .....!" He glanced down at his eyes and said with a wry smile: "I really don't know what the son of the world means." Does the prince think that the disappearance of the third lady has something to do with my mere account office? ”

"I suddenly had a very strange question." Yang Ning stared at Zhao Yuan's eyes, "The third lady was in the account room for almost a whole day yesterday, checking the accounts of the past few years, according to the third lady, among these accounts, no mistakes were found. ”

Zhao Yuan said: "Could it be that Zhao is still wrong to be loyal to his duties?" ”

"Did you know that no one is perfect, and no account is finished." Yang Ning said slowly: "The accounts you made are too clean, even a shrewd person like the third lady can't find a trace of mistakes, and this son is very suspicious." There are 3,000 households in the Qi family, there are hundreds of acres of land, how cumbersome is the annual expenditure, although there are two people in the account room, but you are the only one who mainly handles the accounts, I find it hard to believe that you alone will handle the accounts so cleanly? ”

In fact, Yang Ning heard Gu Qinghan mention that there was no mistake in the accounts yesterday, and he didn't pay much attention to it at first, but after thinking about it, he felt really unbelievable.

This is not a store with two accounts, but a large account related to a lot of money and food expenditures, he used to do business, even if it was a professional accountant of that era, there will be some errors in the accounts, like the big accounts of the Qi family, if there are some mistakes in the middle of it is normal, but it is flawless, but it seems strange.

He already felt that this side of the old mansion was very weird, and Qi Cheng did not return last night, which made Yang Ning even more suspicious, and today Gu Qinghan disappeared mysteriously, and he vaguely felt that it was related to these people in the old mansion.

But Mr. Zhao is one of the objects of his suspicion.

Hearing Mr. Zhao claim that he had only been in this old mansion for three years, and he was still hired by Qi Cheng, Yang Ning felt that Mr. Zhao's origin was unknown, and there must be a secret behind it.

Although he was only suspicious, he couldn't be sure that Gu Qinghan's mysterious disappearance had something to do with Mr. Zhao, but he suddenly attacked, hoping to scare Mr. Zhao and get some clues from him, after all, the other party was just a powerless literati, forced with a knife, if this person really had a secret, he might not be forced to ask by himself.

"The son of the world is wrong!" Suddenly, a heavy voice came from outside the door, and the guards shouted, "What person, stop!" ”

Yang Ning frowned, only to see a burly middle-aged man standing outside the door, tall and dressed in a cloth shirt, stopped by the guards guarding the door.

"Yes, it's Cheng Ye!" Wei Tong glanced at it and shouted, "Shizi, Cheng...... Mr. Qi is back! ”

Yang Ning didn't want Qi Cheng to come back suddenly at this time, his expression was cold, and he said in a deep voice: "Qi Cheng, you come in!" ”

The middle-aged man entered the house and saluted Yang Ning: "Villain Qi Cheng, meet the prince!" ”