Minglan wrung the handkerchief in her hand vigorously: "Yes, there was an accident, an accident that neither Meier nor I expected." ”

"What accident?"

"That ugly monster, that monkey-like Nanyang Hou him...... He actually humiliated me. He put a handkerchief embroidered with yesterday's yellow flowers on my face and said that I was ...... said that I was not wanted by others, and that he was willing to marry me, which was already a blessing that I had cultivated for several lifetimes, and said that I would serve him well in the future.

I am also the eldest lady of the Ming family, even if our Ming family is not as good as in the past, we have never been humiliated and ridiculed like this. I turned to leave, but he pulled me with his dirty hands, and forced me to drink with him, and I was so anxious and annoyed that I kicked and kicked him, and in a fit of urgency, pulled off the hairpin on my head and stabbed him. He screamed, clutched his neck and fell to the ground, I was so frightened that I just stood dumbfounded, forgetting to cry, forgetting to shout, forgetting everything. ”

"And then?"

Mei'er was frightened, too, but she reacted before I did, and she ran to the door and closed the door, followed by quieting me down. Meier said that things have happened, it is useless to cry and shout, and the most important thing in front of her is what to do next. I have lived in the Gu family since I was a child, and I know that killing people is to pay for their lives. But Meier said that I was kind to her, and she was willing to help me bear everything. She said that there were guests in the front yard and that I couldn't go out like that, so she asked me to take off my wedding robe, changed my clothes with her, and let me go out from the path in the house. If you meet someone, you lie that you are her. Also, if the matter is exposed and my body is found, let me bite to death that I ran away from marriage, and my parents have no choice but to let my maid Mei'er, that is, she marry on my behalf. I have never been to the Nanyang Hou Mansion from beginning to end, and I don't know about the assassination of the Nanyang Hou. ”

"It's a good way for a golden cicada to get out of its shell."

"My father and mother said the same thing, so they sent me back to Yecheng overnight and told me not to care about Nanyang anymore."

"But I see, it's not like someone from Nanyang is here to verify the situation, but like he's here to get someone." Yan Su asked this sentence to Gu Changfeng.

"Mei'er died, died in the prison of Nanyang Mansion, and before she died, she said that she was wronged and was harmed by Minglan .

"This plot is twists and turns - could it be that this Mei'er regrets it?"

"I don't blame her." Minglan covered her face: "This was originally my fault, Mei'er suffered it instead of me, and I won't blame her for what she does." ”

Isn't it to blame?

Where did the viciousness and anger hidden in those eyes come from?

"Yan Qing, if we want to help Miss Minglan, we have to figure out two things first. How did Meier die in this first piece? The second thing is what happened after Miss Minglan left Nanyang. ”

"This is not difficult, just go to Nanyang."

"I've got a good arrangement here."

"The emperor has entrusted this matter to me." Gu Changfeng clasped Yan Suwen's hand: "It's just that Mrs. Hard is going to follow this trip." ”

"It's not hard, Miss Minglan has lived in the Gu family since she was a child, it's better to be a relative than a relative, this is a favor, our Gu family should help."

"Brother Yanqing, are you really willing to go to Nanyang for Minglan ?"

"Not for you." Gu Changfeng said lightly: "The Marquis of Nanyang has a special identity, he is the first commoner marquis since the establishment of my Great Wei Dynasty. When an innocent person is killed, the court naturally wants to find out, and it naturally has to give an explanation to the people. ”

"But if—"

"The prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, this truth, Minglan should understand. If the matter is really as you said, it was the Marquis of Nanyang who humiliated you first, and you inadvertently stabbed it, I will also truthfully present the emperor and deal with you as appropriate. ”

"I don't want it! I don't want it! Let me go to jail than let me die happily. Brother Yanqing, you save me, you save Minglan. ”

"Things haven't been figured out yet, Miss Minglan is in a hurry." Yan Su asked and removed Minglan's hand from Gu Changfeng's body: "Could it be that there is something else hidden behind this matter?" ”

"No, nothing else." Number Six

Minglan let go of her hand in a trance, and saw that Yan Suwen's gaze had been clenching her, pursed her lips, and turned sideways.

From Yecheng to Nanyang, I walked for seven days.

Nanyang is surrounded by mountains, Nanyang City is in the depression between the mountains, the four seasons are distinct, but it is not as cold as Yecheng, it is annoying. The Nanyang Marquis Mansion was built at the expense of the imperial court, and the mansion is not very large, but it is also quite eye-catching in Nanyang City. Nanyang Hou's parents died early, and when he was depressed, he was not allowed to see his relatives, and after the marquis, those relatives came to the door, but they were all beaten out by him.

The first lady of Nanyang Hou was rewarded by the emperor, and she is also the lady who has lived in Nanyang Hou's mansion for the longest time so far. He lived there for about two years, and then died because of the wind and cold, and the treatment was ineffective.

"Auntie, do you know where the Nanyang Hou Mansion is?"

After entering the city, Yan Suwen did not go directly to the Nanyang Hou Mansion with the brigade, but got off the carriage halfway and walked around the city while inquiring about things related to the Nanyang Hou Mansion.

"The girl came from outside, right?" While the eldest lady was pancakes, she glanced at Yan Su from the corner of her eyes and asked, "Don't ask, this Nanyang Hou is dead, and it is estimated that this Nanyang Hou Mansion will soon be gone." ”

"I'm from outside." Yan Suwen took some loose silver and put it on the eldest lady's cake stall: "I am a distant cousin of Nanyang Hou, and I want to come and see him when I pass by here." ”

"Cousin? Don't say that a distant cousin is a cousin, and this Nanyang Hou may not see you when he is alive. The eldest lady took the money and put a few cakes in front of Yan Suwen: "If you are the one who asks, I don't necessarily know, but this Nanyang Hou Lin Xiaozhi, I grew up watching." This child, when he was a child, was also a very good child. As for the person, Mu Ne, honest, but steady in his work, often helping his father and mother work. His mother's health is not good, and after giving birth to him, it is even worse, and when it is serious, she will not get out of bed for a whole year. I remember, it was Chinese New Year's Eve, Lin Xiaozhi and her mother swallowed a rusty iron nail, and the person was gone. Everyone knows that his mother is afraid that his mother will continue to live and affect their father and son. ”

"What about Nanyang Hou's father?"

"He is also an honest man, he has been working all his life, supporting his family, and raising his own wife and children. Since Nanyang Hou and his mother left, this honest man wilted like a frosted eggplant overnight, and died of illness within two years. At that time, Nanyang Hou was still young, seven or eight years old, and he was dark and thin, as if he could be blown away by a gust of wind. We pity him and often give him something to help him.

Their family originally had relatives, but those relatives had not had an easy life, and adding him to him was equivalent to adding an extra burden, and no one wanted it. Speaking of which, this kid is also quite pitiful, and he has been alone for a few years. Later, when I got a little older, I began to find ways to make a living on my own. ”

"How can such a young child make a living?"

"How else can you make a living? Stealing, taking, robbing, anyway, from a child who is to be seen has become a pitiful child, and from a pitiful child to a child who is eager to be killed. If it weren't for the fact that the imperial court suddenly made him the Marquis of Nanyang, she might not know what she would look like, maybe she would have been beaten to death a long time ago. ”

"The first lady of the Nanyang Hou Mansion, have you all seen it?"

"I've seen it, but I'm not impressed." The eldest lady recalled: "Although this Nanyang Hou has become a Hou Ye, he is very stingy and rarely lets his wife go out." The only time he went out was when someone came to the imperial court, and the Marquis of Nanyang took his first lady out to greet him. Let's just sit aside and take a sneak peek, it was really a flower stuck in cow dung. ”

"I heard that the first lady of Nanyang Hou died of illness?"

"He died of illness, but he could also be said to have been beaten to death and killed." The eldest lady sighed.

"Death from illness is death from illness, how can it be related to beating and killing?"

"This Nanyang Hou has a poor background, and when he grows up, his brain is different from ordinary people. For people like us, if they can find a beautiful girl like Mrs. Hou, they have to hold it, but he is different. At the beginning, he may have been kind to others, but gradually, he began to do it. As for the reason for this, many people in our city know that he feels that his wife looks down on him and looks down on him. That lady should also be a girl from a rich and noble family, with a delicate body, how could she withstand his bullying, and she fell ill not long after. At first, this Nanyang Hou also took money to see his wife, but after a long time, he stopped seeing it. This lady is not so much sick and dead, but rather consumed, boiled to death, and dragged to death. In the eyes of those of us, it is equivalent to being killed by him. ”

"And what about the other ladies?"

"What the outside world talks about is that they died of illness and accident, but how they died, only Nanyang Hou himself knows."

"What about the new lady? Does the eldest lady know about the new lady? ”

"I've heard people say it, but we don't know exactly what's going on." The eldest lady flipped the cake in her hand: "It seems to say that Nanyang Hou has fallen in love with a young lady from someone's family, this young lady is knowledgeable and reasonable, and she is very beautiful." I don't know what means this Nanyang Hou used to force the young lady's family to agree. The marriage was set, but the young lady ran away. In desperation, I had to marry a beautiful maid first. I don't know what happened that night, anyway, Nanyang Hou died, and the beautiful maid who replaced Miss Nanyang and married Nanyang Hou was also taken away by the people in the yamen. ”

"I heard that the maid died, and she died in the prison of Nanyang Mansion."

"It's dead, and it's your own death." The eldest lady sighed twice, her eyes full of pity.