Chapter 43: Dead Man
The Yuan circle found that a certain prince always likes to appear unnoticed, and every time he scares her behind his back.
Turning his head, he saw the man who was "fascinated by her and crying and begging her to be his princess" standing in the doorway, leaning against the door frame and looking at her with a smile.
bragging about being caught, Yuan Quanquan was a little embarrassed, got up and looked at the meditation and laughed dryly: "Lord Wang, why are you here?" ”
Meditation stepped into the room and sat down at the table, "What? Can't this king come? ”
Yuan Quanquan immediately leaned up: "Yes, why can't you!" You can go wherever you want, who can stop you! ”
Xiao Zhi was stunned for a moment when she saw the meditation cultivation, and immediately went down to make tea with great discernment, leaving the space for the two of them.
Shen Xiu raised his eyes lightly and hooked his hand towards the Yuan Circle, "Come here." ”
Although Yuan Quanquan was very disgusted by his action, he still obediently sat down beside him.
"Lord, did you tell the emperor to let him give him a marriage?" The Yuan Circle had nothing to say, so he asked knowingly.
"Or else?"
"The emperor agreed so easily?"
"Why, you're not happy to listen to your tone? Isn't that what you asked for? "Meditation's eyes are as black as ink, and he usually doesn't think anything about it with a smile in his eyes, but as long as he doesn't smile, when he stares at a person with those eyes, it is like a deep pool, and he will unconsciously suck people into it, and he can't extricate himself from it.
Yuan Quanquan was stunned by his eyes, and then shook his head and said, "No, I'm happy!" "Even if she doesn't want to, she doesn't want to resist the decree, she doesn't want to lose her head.
Seeing her cowardly little appearance, Ming Xiu couldn't help but feel a little cute, and had the heart to tease her, "But why does this king think that you look unwilling?" Who was fascinated by this king and cried and begged to be the princess of this king? Taking the other party's words back as they were, meditation saw a certain little woman's embarrassed face as he wished.
The Yuan Circle secretly pouted and complained, can this matter be over? She just said casually, she just bragged in front of Xiao Zhi, is it necessary to make fun of her like this?
"Lord, the emperor is so generous and has rewarded a lot of things!" Quickly changing the subject, Yuan Quanquan pointed to the stacked boxes in the room, trying to confuse the past.
How could the meditation cultivator not know her intentions, but did not debunk it, and looked amusefully in the direction of her finger, glanced back at it, and asked, "What about the dowry that this king gave you?" ”
"Huh?" I wanted to divert the attention of meditation, but I didn't want him to worry about another thing, Yuan Quanquan was a little weak, his eyes glanced around, and finally replied honestly, "Well, I saved it in the money bank and exchanged it for cash." ”
Unexpectedly, the meditation cultivator didn't react much, only gave a faint "um", and then there was no follow-up.
Yuan Quanquan thought that the other party would be angry for her behavior, but he didn't want him to look indifferent, but he was a little surprised.
But he just asked the best, the dowry was for her, and it should have been handled by her, shouldn't it?
The two sat facing each other, relatively silent for a while, until Xiao Zhi came back from making tea, and broke the peace.
Because he came to find the Yuan Circle in private, he didn't alarm the people of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he just came to take a look, sat for a while and then quietly left, as if he had never come.
After the meditation left, Yuan Quanquan sat in a daze for a while, thinking that he was about to marry and become a bride, and suddenly felt a sense of unreality. Her original goal was just to make money and make herself a rich woman, but she didn't want to achieve it in another way.
It is now the beginning of July, and there are more than ten days left before July 16, and the wedding is arranged by her own meditation side, although she does not have her mother to help handle it, but she is the emperor's marriage, and Lu Jue will not let people slack off. Qian, as the hostess of the Prime Minister's Mansion and the mother of the Yuan Circle, naturally fell on her. No matter how unwilling she is, no matter how resentful she is, she will not dare to disobey the holy decree!
Someone is handling the marriage, and the bride-to-be in the Yuan Circle has become the most idle. If she stayed in the mansion, she might be found fault by the Qian family and Lu Qingyuan, so she simply patted her ass again, slipped out of the prime minister's mansion through the back door, and walked out of the street.
Because Lu Qingyang had never been known to outsiders before, almost no one knew her. Yuan Quanquan walked on the street, although she heard many people talking about her marriage to Shen Xiu, but she walked all the way, but no one knew her, and even someone talked about it in front of her, the party, the scene was quite funny.
Yuan Quanquan listened to the gossip about herself all the way, good and bad, she didn't care at all, she found a teahouse casually, ordered a plate of peanuts, and continued to listen to the gossip while eating.
When I heard "The second lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion has not been visible because she is extremely ugly", she suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure out of the corner of her eye.
The headcatcher is really a busy person, she eats peanuts here, drinks tea and listens to gossip, and the people's servants are busy catching thieves!
I saw that on the street outside the teahouse, Murong Zhen was pressing a middle-aged man to the ground, and the two arresters behind him immediately escorted the person and took him away.
Clapped his hands and got up and left the teahouse, ran behind Murong Zhen, and patted him on the shoulder, "Hey, I touched you again." ”
Murong Zhen turned around and saw that it was the Yuan Circle, his expression was stunned, and he took a step back, hugged his fists and saluted: "Miss Lu." ”
Yuan Quanquan looked familiar, and said with a smile: "Murong Zhutou seems to be quite busy!" ”
Although Murong Zhen still had novelties and doubts about the person in front of him, his attitude was much kinder than before, "Where the duty lies." ”
Maybe he also heard about the emperor's appointment of the second lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion as the princess of Ming, Murong Zhen looked at the Yuan Circle, opened his mouth, and seemed to want to say something, and felt that with the relationship between the two of them, it didn't seem to be to the point of talking about this, so he was silent again.
Yuan Quanquan seemed to guess what he wanted to ask, and just as he wanted to say a few words, a man suddenly came out of the crowd in the distance, slammed into front of the two, and shouted with a panicked face and a pale face: "Official, it's not good!" Dead man, dead man! ”
Murong Zhen frowned and looked at him: "Where?" ”
The man pointed somewhere behind him, "Drunken Red Mansion." ”
Hearing this familiar name, Yuan Quanquan was stunned.
Drunken Red Mansion? Dead people in the green building?
Murong Zhen didn't hesitate, didn't ask any extra words, only asked a few important words and hurried to the Drunken Red Mansion.
The Yuan Circle was bored anyway, so I couldn't help but be curious about it, so I followed without saying a word. Today she came out without Xiao Zhi, and only followed a Ah Piao who was invisible to others, but she also saved the effort of arguing with Xiao Zhi, and after a while, she stood in the backyard of the drunken red mansion, the scene of the crime.
The courtyard was full of people standing around at this time, most of them were girls from the drunken red mansion and a few thugs, the girls gathered in a distance and stood together, holding handkerchiefs in their hands and covering their noses and mouths, curious and frightened at the same time, and did not dare to come forward.
The Yuan circle pulled out the crowd, walked closer to see, and took a look, oh, it's disgusting!
I have seen too many ghosts with terrifying images, and when I saw the corpse lying in the courtyard that was mixed with blood and dirt, and had begun to decompose in many places, Yuan Quanquan didn't react much, but I felt that this death was really ugly.
The corpse was a man, a skinny man, buried in the backyard of the drunken Red Mansion, and now he was dug out and lying on the edge of the pit, and the disgusting corpse caused a group of girls around him to scream in a low voice, mixed with some vomiting sounds.
"Who found the body?" Murong Zhen squatted down to check some of the situation of the corpse, got up and asked the people present.
The old bustard stood a few steps away from Murong Zhen with a white face, and after hearing the question, he pulled out a little girl behind him and pushed it to Murong Zhen, "Tell Murong Zhutou everything you know." ”
It was a small little girl, she should be fourteen or fifteen years old, and she should be a girl in the building. She was pushed to Murong Zhen by the old bustard, lowered her head and trembled with fright, trembling for a long time.
Murong Zhen stepped forward and asked in a slow tone, "You were the first to find out?" When was it discovered? ”
The little girl glanced up at Murong Zhen, and her eyes involuntarily glanced at the corpse behind him, so frightened that she immediately closed her eyes and turned her head, hesitated for a long time before replying, "Yes...... I found it, right in ...... In half an hour...... Before. ”
"Can you tell me what happened?"
Maybe it was because Murong Zhen had a convincing and upright face, or maybe it was because he had some fame in the capital, the little girl hesitated for a while, and then told the story as it was.
The little girl's name is Zhen'er, she is the maid ring of a girl named Begonia in the building, because of today's Begonia girl's menstrual affairs, she took the sanitary belt that Begonia replaced to dispose of.
In ancient times, there were no sanitary napkins, and the sanitary belts used by women were used by wrapping grass ash or cotton in strips of cloth, and they were generally burned or buried after use. And Zhen'er has always buried these things in the backyard of the drunken red mansion, and today is no exception, while the girls in the building are asleep, she quietly goes to the backyard to bury the filth in her hand.
However, she encountered something that almost scared her out.
She actually dug a hand out of the dirt!
The little girl was young, and when she experienced such a terrifying thing, she screamed loudly at the moment, and the screams attracted the bustard. The old bustard was also shocked when he saw this scene, and immediately called the guards and thugs in the building to dig up the corpses in the soil, and a miscellaneous servant in the kitchen of the drunken red mansion dug up the dead people in the courtyard, and immediately ran out to report to the official, but he ran to meet Murong Zhen halfway, so he invited someone to come.
After listening to Zhen'er's stumbling narration, Murong Zhen frowned, turned around and fixed his gaze on the corpse again, looking at him from head to toe.
Yuan Quanquan stood on the other side of the corpse, like the girls next to him, watching the excitement leisurely.
Murong Zhen didn't seem to expect her to follow, looked up at her, didn't say anything, just pretended that she didn't exist, lowered his head and concentrated on thinking.