Everyone in the room held their breath, staring at the man in black with a long sword, Pearl wanted to rush forward to protect Xiao Man, but she had no choice but to be unable to move.

She watched as the man walked up to Xiao Man, then put away the long sword in his hand, and then knelt down.

"Ma'am, I'm late." The rest of the room heard the man in black say this.

Xiao Man was stunned and hadn't reacted yet.

"Entrusted by my master, I came to protect my wife, but I didn't want to be delayed on the road." As he spoke, the man in black took off his mask, revealing a face that was somewhat familiar to Xiao Man, with guilt: "I didn't expect that in such an ordinary family, there are still thieves with bad intentions. ”

"You... What did you say? Xiaoman seemed to hear the word "bandit".

The man coughed lightly and said, "I don't know how those bandits got here, but those people obviously have bad intentions, but fortunately, now they have been caught by me." ”

As he spoke, the secret guard raised his eyes and glanced at the Wang clan not far away, and his tone suddenly became a little colder, "Those people are hiding in her courtyard, madam, I think they have premeditated!" I want to get you here, and then I can do it! ”

Hearing this, Xiao Man hurriedly turned around and looked at Jia Meng in disbelief.

She frowned slightly, "Jia Meng, you ......"

"I'm not!" Jia Meng finally reacted, her legs trembled and walked in front of Xiao Man, one leg knelt down softly, she raised her head to look at Xiao Man, and hurriedly shook her head to justify: "I don't, I really don't!" Madam, you know, I just want to know why Wei Qi died so suddenly! ”

As soon as the words fell, Wang suddenly spoke, his voice was old and tired, with endless vicissitudes, "Those people have been in the courtyard for a long time. ”

Xiao Man was even more shocked, she looked at Wang in a daze, and didn't know what to say for a while.

And the secret guard kneeling in front of Xiao Man had already gotten up and quickly rushed to Wang's side, making a gesture to detain her in case she accidentally hurt Xiao Man.

But at this time, Jia Meng and Xiaoman spoke out at the same time: "Let go of her!" ”

Xiao Man held on to the pillar, his eyes still looking at Wang, "You have nothing to do with those people, right?" ”

Although it was a question, Xiao Man already had her own thoughts, and she believed that the Wang family had nothing to do with this matter.

"Madame! It's-"

The dark guard was about to say something, but as soon as he said a few words, the Wang family, who was detained by him, spoke up, and she said, "I know that they are hiding in the courtyard early in the morning, but the county lord, you must believe me, I really have nothing to do with these people." ”

Hearing this, the dark guard sneered, "How can it be okay?" They're hiding in your yard, ready to do anything, where do you get the face to say they have nothing to do with you? Why, knowing that they are all dead, so there is no proof of death, are you going to talk nonsense? ”

"Shut up! Let her go first, and don't interject later! Xiao Man drank the secret guard, then looked at Wang, and his tone softened a little, "Aunt Wang, you speak first." ”

The dark guard who was drunk furrowed his brows a little angrily, and reluctantly let go of the Wang family, but in the end he didn't dare to say anything.

Wang is old, she has been detained by the secret guard for such a long time, her body is a little unbearable, she frowned, after being let go by the secret guard, she moved her muscles and bones for a while before clearing her throat and starting to speak.

"I don't know where those people came from, but since Kiki died, I felt like someone was watching us in the yard all the time, and it was very infiltrating," she said. ”

"Qiqi left suddenly, and there were not many people at home, so we were preparing and organizing Qiqi's funeral for the past two days, even if we felt a little weird, but we didn't have the time to pay attention to them, I just thought about waiting for Qiqi's matter to be over, and I would go to the government again, so that the officers and soldiers could come and see what was going on in the courtyard."

"But before I could go to the government, you came." As she spoke, Wang raised her eyes and glanced at Xiao Man, her cloudy eyes were full of guilt and pain, and she said, "Although I also suspected Qiqi's illness, after what you just said, I realized that Qiqi's death may really be strange. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Shi was already remorseful, she covered her face in pain, tears kept flowing from her fingers, she whimpered: "But at that time, there was already a movement outside the courtyard, I thought, there may really be people outside, they noticed that you began to suspect Kiki's death, so it is very likely to hurt you." ”

"So Aunt Wang kept interrupting us just now?" Xiao Man just figured out what he had just done.

Wang covered his face and nodded, full of heaviness, and his voice became more and more hoarse, "It's my useless mother, I have served Qiqi for several days, but I didn't even find her ......"

As he spoke, Wang couldn't speak, he only covered his face and cried in a low voice, his thin shoulders trembling, and he was on the verge of collapse.

At this point, Xiao Man already understood that his initial conjecture was very likely to be the truth.

In order to do a good job in this game, those thieves killed Wei Qi and let himself die without proof, so that he could completely believe what Qian Xiaoshan said, so as to drive Xiaoxue away.

Or, he trusts Xiaoxue very much, so he won't punish her, but if he does, the other four embroiderers will be angry, and if Qian Xiaoshan provokes again, then his only four embroiderers are likely to leave.

It's really a good calculation.

Xiao Man took a deep breath, put aside all the miscellaneous things for the time being, and asked, "Aunt Wang, are there anyone else in your family?" ”

"Nope." Wang sobbed and said, "Qiqi is gone, the daughters are married, and the two sons are working in other places, so I am the only one left in the family." ”

Kiki is the most sensible of all her children, and the one who wants to stay at home with her the most, and now that Kiki is gone, and the other children are leaving after dealing with the funeral, she doesn't know what to do.

"Now those bandits have set their sights on Aunt Wang, in my opinion, you might as well go to my mansion to avoid it first, and tell us more details by the way, so that those bandits can be captured, what do you think?" Xiaoman suggested.

Before Wang could speak, Jia Meng gave her the master first, "Madam is right!" Aunt Wang, you should go to the county lord's mansion first, otherwise if those thieves come again, you... What should you do? ”

Seeing that the Wang family had not spoken out, Xiao Man persuaded again: "Jia Meng is right, Aunt Wang, now that Wei Qi is gone, you have to cheer up, at least help Wei Qi take revenge!" ”

Xu is last sentence touched the Wang family, and she finally raised her head, with a tearful face, and said with some embarrassment: "County Lord, this... It won't bother you too much, right? ”

"No, no, no." Seeing that the other party was finally a little loose, Xiao Man hurriedly said: "You go to live in the house first, I still have a lot of things to trouble you." ”

Saying that, Xiao Man hurriedly greeted the secret guard and said, "Help Aunt Wang up, let's hurry back to the house." ”

The secret guard was still a little reluctant, although he obediently helped the Wang family, but he was still muttering: "Madam, you haven't asked what is going on, just bring people back like this, in case-"

"Okay, okay, why are you talking so much." Xiao Man glared at the dark guard in displeasure, and shouted: "Help Aunt Wang, if you dare to mumble again, I will drive you back to Shangjing." ”

After this half-truth threat, the dark guard quieted down.

In fact, his heart is as careful as Xiaoman, how could he not have thought about what the dark guard said? It's just that Wei Qi has just died, and the Wang family is obviously still in grief, if she really colludes with the bandits, then what is Wei Qi's death? After all, Wang is also a victim.

Besides, if the Wang family really colluded with the bandits, and Wei Qi's death was also a cover, then Xiaoman would have to bring people back even more, so that he could put the Wang family under his nose and thoroughly supervise it, lest she do anything unfavorable to herself.

The group quickly returned to the county lord's mansion, Xiao Man had just arranged a place for the Wang family, and when he was about to go back to his room, he saw Lu Li running towards him from a distance.

The other party looked worried, and before he reached Xiaoman, he hurriedly asked, "Are you okay?" Why did you go out so suddenly this time, I didn't even have time to find someone to protect you. ”

"I'm fine." Xiao Man raised his lips and smiled, and said, "Aren't I okay?" Besides, you haven't already sent a secret guard to follow me, it's fine. ”

"It was when I suddenly learned that you were out of the house, so I hurriedly asked people to follow." Lu Li pretended to be angry and said, "You can't do this next time, it's a dangerous time, and no one knows what crazy things those bandits can do, you have to be extremely careful." ”

Xiao Man smiled, jumped in front of the other party with one foot a little bit, took the initiative to step forward and hold Lu Li's hand, and rarely lied to the other party, "Okay, I know, there will be no next time, okay?" ”

Lu Li clenched the woman's little hand, and sighed helplessly, "Every time it's like this, do you know how worried I am about you?" ”

This time, it was indeed Xiao Man who was too impulsive, so that he was worried about the safety of the Wang family, but he ignored himself.

She is now inconvenient in her legs and feet, and there is only one maid by her side, Pearl is by her side, she went out in such a hurry, Lu Li is in a hurry, if she wasn't worried about Wangshu in the house, he would have gone out to find it in person.

Xiaoman knew that he was reckless this time, and he didn't dare to defend himself, so he only lowered his head and obediently accepted the lesson, so as not to make the man even more angry.

However, Lu Li was reluctant to teach too much, after all, he was distressed when he looked at the woman's low-eyed appearance of being trained.

Therefore, he coughed lightly and asked, "I heard that you brought someone back and have something to do with the bandits, is it true?" ”

"Uh-huh." Xiao Man nodded, "Her daughter just died, and I suspect she was killed by bandits." ”