"Hey, I'm getting old."

Mrs. Mu sighed, the last time she went to Chengjun Wangfu, there was an unpleasant scene, Mrs. Mu thought that Mu Qingwan was thinking about what happened last time, so Mu Qingwan didn't pay attention to her strange appearance at this time, but continued to talk to Mu Chen.

Mu Qingwan continued to feed Mu Lan, but her heart was not calm, how could the old county king die?

Thinking of the pear blossom jade pendant taken out of the stone given by the old county king last time, Mu Qingwan couldn't calm down in her heart, did the old county king's death have anything to do with the jade pendant? What is the meaning of jade pendant? The questions that I hadn't thought through before were tossed and turned over and over again in my heart.

"Sister, what's wrong with you?"

Mu Lan was very sensitive to Mu Qingwan's emotional changes, so he asked in a concerned whisper.

"Oh, it's okay, my sister is fine, let's drink porridge."

……

That morning, Mrs. Mu told Marquis Anping about Mu Lan's poisoning, and Marquis Anping was also shocked, as if he was more than ten years old, so he acquiesced to some of Mrs. Mu's actions later.

Mrs. Mu returned to the courtyard, and after the last time Mu Lan came out of Hanxiangyuan, she sold a few people again, and there were many fewer people at once.

After lunch, the old lady of the Zhenguo General's Mansion came to the door in person, followed by a mighty team of people, and Mu Yan, who was studying martial arts in the Zhenguo General's Mansion, also came back.

The old lady went straight to Hanxiangyuan, hugged Mu Lan and called her grandson distressedly. Mu Yan didn't expect so many things to happen during the time he was not in the mansion, and he was annoyed, otherwise he would not have seen this kind of thing happen if he looked at his younger brother.

The old lady came this time and brought a group of subordinates to Mrs. Mu, after all, Mrs. Mu had just returned to the capital, and there might be insufficient manpower.

Mu Qingwan was also assigned four maids.

The old lady left before dinner, Mu Yan took Mu Lan's pulse, and made sure that there was no major problem, so she went back to her yard, of course, with four maids.

The four maids are Su Mei, Su Lan, Su Zhu, and Su Ju, Mei Lan Zhu Ju are all accounted for, all of them are orphans, and they were later adopted by the Zhenguo General's Mansion and trained to be a secret guard, and now they all belong to Mu Qingwan.

Su Mei is fourteen years old, the eldest of the four, and she is a calm girl.

Su Lan was twelve years old, and her appearance was supposed to be the best-looking, but there was an ugly scar on the right side of her face, which ruined the beauty, and she was more taciturn than Su Mei.

Su Zhu and Su Ju are both twelve years old and have ordinary appearances.

The four maids were all trained in the form of secret guards, and they were outstanding in martial arts, and they were good at concealment, assassination, and intelligence exploration.

Back in the courtyard, Mu Qingwan asked Jixiang to find everyone else in the courtyard, and after the nurse died, only Jixiang Ruyi, Bai Qi Bai Zhi and Hu Zhao remained.

"My personal affairs, or by auspicious and Ruyi is in charge, Su Mei, Su Lan, Su Zhu, Su Ju take the second class maid example, in the future, Su Mei and Su Zhu by auspicious arrangement, Su Lan and Su Ju by Ruyi arrangement, the rest of the people as usual. Okay, Ruyi, you go and arrange a place to live, and Jixiang will help me fetch water and bathe. ”

"Jixiang, what's wrong with these two days?"

After everyone else left, Mu Qingwan and Jixiang were talking in the bathroom.

"Miss Hui, after you left yesterday, my subordinates noticed that Bai Zhi entered your house once, but came out quickly."

Jixiang lowered his voice and said.

"Huh? What else? ”

Bai Qi and Bai Zhi were both arranged for Jixiang and Ruyi, and they were not qualified to enter Mu Qingwan's house.

The subordinates suspected that there was something wrong with Bai Zhi, but she seemed to be very alert and there was no movement anymore. Everything is normal with Bai Qi, she has been in the kitchen all the time, and she can't see anything abnormal. ”

"Well, keep watching. Where is Hu Zhao? ”

"Hu Zhao found out that the nurse had contact with the people outside Hanxiangyuan that day, and it was the little girl who came to ask for rewards that day, but when she went to check this line again, she found that the little girl had made a mistake and was sold to the house, and when she went to look for it, there was no trace of the person."

It's a bit of a coincidence.

"When the maid enters the house, there will be a record, let Hu Zhao check again, or check who she has more contact with on weekdays, and there will always be clues."

Although I don't know if it will be useful, Mu Qingwan doesn't want to give up such a clue.

"Also, the nurse's room, look carefully again to see if there are any clues missing."

"Miss, the nurse is illiterate, and she has not found anything else except the fifty taels of silver that suddenly appeared. That's right, miss, here you see. ”

After Ji Xiang finished speaking, he took out a bag of silver from his arms.

"Take the money."

Mu Qingwan is very generous to her subordinates, although fifty taels of silver is a lot, but over the years, with Mu Qingwan, Jixiang and Ruyi have a lot of money in their hands.

Mu Qingwan casually glanced at the silver in Jixiang's hand, but just casually glanced at it, but found something unusual.

"Wait, show it to me."

Hearing this, Jixiang stepped forward and handed the silver to Mu Qingwan.

Mu Qingwan just touched the cloth that covered the silver.

"This cloth?."

The silver is covered with a dark cloth, which looks inconspicuous, but feels good to the touch, and is a brocade.

Satin brocade is a new textile technology that has emerged in the south of the Yangtze River in recent years, and the cloth woven by this process is stronger, durable, and more comfortable, because the process is more complex, so the price is several times more expensive than ordinary cloth. Although the value is not worth comparing with the floating brocade at all, ordinary people can't afford it.

"Let Hu Zhao check from here and see if anyone in the mansion has used this kind of brocade."

"Yes, miss."

"Well, you go down first."

"Yes, the subordinates will retire first."

……

Mu Qingwan quickly finished bathing.

There have been a lot of things that have happened in the past few days, and Mu Qingwan has been thinking about things carefully in her heart.

The old county king of Chengjun Wangfu is dead? Obviously, when I saw it in Chengjun Wangfu before, I was still very strong, how could it be so sudden? Mrs. Mu said that it was a sudden illness, but Mu Qingwan didn't believe it very much, especially when the old county king gave him a jade pendant.

By the way, Pear Blossom Jade Pendant, is the death of the old county king related to this?

Mu Qingwan wiped her hair as she walked to the dresser.

Mu Qingwan remembered that after taking out the jade pendant from the stone last time, she casually threw it into the jewelry box.

Sitting in front of the dresser, I was about to open the jewelry box to check, but I found something unusual.

Someone has been here!

The jewelry in the house, Ruyi helps to tidy up on weekdays, and for so many years, Ruyi's habit of tidying up things is very familiar to Mu Qingwan. But now, it's different.

The rouge gouache was bought by Mrs. Mu for Mu Qingwan, but Mu Qingwan was young, and she didn't use fat powder on weekdays, so she couldn't use it at all, so she was put in the corner, and it was basically out of reach, but now the location has changed! There are other places that have changed their location to some extent.

Mu Qingwan opened the jewelry box quietly, and the jewelry felt like it had been turned over, but fortunately, the pear blossom jade pendant was still there.

Closing the box, Mu Qingwan did not make a noise, but considered the intention of the person who came. Is it stealing? But most of the valuables are there. That is, there is something else to do, what is worth paying attention to in your room? Mu Qingwan inevitably thought of the pear blossom jade pendant.