Chapter 650: Who is the murderer

Looking at the Xiancao County Lord closely, he is also an extremely beautiful person, and he can't find a single flaw in his face. A pair of gentle and affectionate eyes embedded in a coquettish goose egg face, when she doesn't look at you, she also gives people the illusion of staring all the time, but her face is very pale, and there is no blood, I think it is because of the initial recovery from a serious illness.

He Angelica used the privilege of winning tea to ask her to come to his room, originally wanting to take a look at the piece of Kodama. After listening to Peng Shi's story, I realized that the jade had been lost for nearly half a year and was not in the hands of the Xiancao County Lord.

And Peng Shi said that he did not directly hand over the golden lock to Li Xianqian, but put it in a place where she would come into contact every day, and then visited the princess's mansion as a doctor and asked for treatment for Li Xianqian. He is related to the first medical family, and Princess Lin'an saw that he was good, so she asked him to try to diagnose Li Xianqian's pulse. Later, Li Xianqian saw that she was well and could go out to play as before.

"Qingning?" Li Xianqian saw that she had been in a daze, so she called her.

He Angelica poured two more cups of tea and said with a smile: "That's the case, I heard people mention, Miao Miao, you have a piece of jade that can cure diseases, so you want to take a look, I don't know if it's abrupt?" As a doctor, I am very interested in everything that can be cured. ”

"It turned out that my sister called me for tea, and it turned out to be for this matter." Li Xianqian breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "I thought that some time ago, my relationship with Meng Qigongzi made you uncomfortable." ”

He Angelica raised his eyebrows and hooked his lips: "This is a good thing, what is there to be uncomfortable with, my sister can come to be my companion, and it is also a blessing for the Seventh Master and me." ”

Li Xianqian was surprised, looking at He Angelica's expression, it didn't look like a fake at all, it was really a supreme welcome. Li Xianqian hung her head shyly, combed her sideburns and said, "Qingning, you may not know, I originally set a marriage, and the other party is the son of the Mei family, the son of Princess Ningguo, and my aunt and cousin." ”

"Oh."

"At that time, the elders of the two sides only made a verbal agreement, and I didn't want to think that Cousin Mei passed away just a year later."

“…… It's a pity. ”

Li Xianqian tilted her head and winked at He Angelica: "My impression of Cousin Mei is good, but my sister hates him very much, saying that he is dead." ”

"Huh?" He Angelica didn't understand why Li Xianqian said this to her, did the two sides have such a good relationship?

Li Xianqian grinned: "You may not know, my sister lives in my body, and we share the same body." The body is relatively tired, so it is necessary to sleep enough for two people. ”

“……”

"After Cousin Mei died, Princess Ningguo felt a little sorry when she saw that I hadn't said kiss for several years." Li Xianqian said eloquently, "The old lady of the Meng family was originally the aunt and grandmother of Cousin Mei, the Mei and Meng families have always been good friends, and the eleven tigers of the Meng family are famous in the capital, which is completely different from the ordinary gentlemen, and is deeply loved by the ladies of the capital. That's it, Princess Ning Guo pulled a red line from the middle. ”

"Very good."

Li Xianqian put down the tea clock, leaned her face closer, and asked with a smile: "Aren't you afraid of me?" ”

He Angelica shook his head: "Even if your 'two people share the same body' situation is true, there is nothing to be afraid of, I have seen this kind of patient before, or you get along well, and you don't think it's a disease at all." "If you're afraid, leave it to Meng Xuan to do.

"Really! You've seen this disease! Li Xianqian grabbed He Angelica's hand.

"Absolutely."

"Are 'they' still alive today?"

"I'm still alive, but the patient has asked for 'their' case to be kept secret, and I can't reveal it to the county lord."

Li Xianqian let go of He Angelica's hand, sat sullenly for a while, and said depressedly: "Actually, I don't want to use the same body as my twin sister, but she is pestering me, what can I do." When there was jade before, she was willing to live in the jade, but now that the jade is gone, she is back. ”

He Angelica looked at Li Xianqian coldly, when I first saw her, I felt that she was elegant and generous, and I felt a little childish when I got along, is this the real her?

The jade that disappeared mysteriously, the strange fairy grass county lord.

"My mother protected me very well, and outsiders never knew about my illness," Li Xianqian leaned on her cheeks and said distressedly, "Later, Princess Ningguo asked people to take my eight characters and Meng Qigongzi, and the one who criticized the words was Tianjizi Qi Daochang, saying that it was a perfect match." Otherwise, our family may not be willing to marry the Meng family, I heard that the Meng family's family law is not close to people. She moved the stool to He Angelica's side and asked quietly, "Good sister, how is Meng Xuan?" Tell me, okay? ”

He Angelica was stunned, Li Xianqian was nervous before she got married, and came to her to ask her father-in-law? But she didn't receive the news that Li Xianqian wanted to pass through the door.

Meng Xuan, he ...... Overall not bad. ”

"How's that good?"

He ...... The martial arts are good, the people are not fierce, and you are the same as the county lord, sleeping all day long. He Angelica tilted his head, "Actually, I don't know him well, the day after I got married, he left Beijing for office work." ”

After listening to this, Li Xianqian did not hide her disappointed expression. She asked people to inquire about Meng Xuan in the princess's mansion, and the reply she got was that she was not at home all the year round and lived in the barracks for a long time, and she was a very boring wood when she heard it. made her seriously suspect that when a woman marries him, he is almost like a widow, and if he dies on the battlefield one day, he will really become a widow!

Looking at He Angelica's indifferent expression again, he didn't regard her as a rival in love, and he obviously didn't care about Meng Xuan. This also indirectly confirms that Meng Xuan doesn't like women at all.

"I heard that ......" Li Xianqian took advantage of the opportunity to ask again, "Peng Shi is your cousin, what do you think of him?" ”

Peng Shi? He Angelica smiled secretly in her heart, she asked Li Xianqian to drink tea, but she didn't ask anything she wanted to ask, but the other party dug up the news from her. Peng Shi said that he was interested in Li Xianqian, so why not help him.

He Angelica said with a smile: "Cousin Peng is a talented person, he has been studious since he was a child, he has traveled all over the world, and he also learned the Sanqing acupuncture method from Mrs. Luo, and his medical skills are also very superb. ”

"You know him well?" Li Xianqian asked nervously.

"I'm not familiar," He Angelica shook his head, "It's just that he studied in Yangzhou for half a year when he was a child, and I also studied in the same academy. However, he has a high vision, he is not a beautiful woman in the city, and he does not marry a woman of gold and jade, so his second cousin is married, and he has not yet married. ”

Li Xianqian bowed her head and was stunned thoughtfully for a while.

After the end of the unitary after speaking, the candles in the room were lit, He Angelica left Li Xianqian to do embroidery work together, Li Xianqian said that she was tired, and got up to say goodbye.

He Angelica himself played under the lamp, put a jade sleeve on Meng Xuan, and thought that she had never given him anything seriously, and ordinary wives would definitely bother to clean up their husbands with beautiful clothes and shoes, but she never paid attention to these. Meng Xuan was also very arrogant, he didn't care about anything with her, and he didn't ask for anything, is this one of his advantages?

Thinking of Meng Xuan's sleeping appearance, her cheeks turned pale pink, and a smile appeared on her lips that she hadn't even noticed.

Yesterday, Princess Yan gave her two very good silkworm cocoons, and the needles and silk threads here are complete, so it is better to try to cut them and make a dress for Meng Xuan. If you can, you can wear it, and if you can't, let him wear it at home.

Although she had never learned tailoring, how difficult it could be, and it was normal for a smart person like her to be self-taught. She smiled slightly, confidently holding the scissors and walking towards the cocoon......

Half an hour later, a fine water-green silk that had not been cut by her was cut to pieces.

At first, she wanted to make a robe for Meng Xuan, a small coat, but before she started, she had already imagined the romantic shape of Meng Xuan's green robe in her mind. There is a ready-made men's paper pattern in the dustpan, which is placed on the cloth, just compare the hinges. Somehow, it was so simple that she hinged the wrong sleeve, so the robe lost its sleeves.

Then he had no waist, no legs, and finally, Meng Xuan had no robe.

He Angelica wiped his sweat with a handkerchief, and thought intelligently that it was a pity that such a good silk was wasted, and these rags could also be used to fill pillows, insoles, and hats.

By the way, she can make hats! Let's make a good-looking hat for Meng Xuan, he has to go back to the north again, that place is cold, and he can use the hat! The rest of the cloth was cut into strips and mixed with white chrysanthemums, Meng Xuan liked to sleep so much, put a pillow for him!

Just as she was about to move the scissors again, she suddenly heard a lot of noise outside, and looked through the window, and saw the fire flickering, not like a lamp or a little bit of charcoal. Then, I heard someone shouting, "Walk out of the water!" Walk the water! ”

She dropped the scissors and went out to see, the water was the three wings in the north, where Niu Wenlan lived, before He Angelica carried a bucket through the window of the wing, and saw that Zhu Liuran was also there, with Niu Wenlan and a paintbrush, talking and laughing. There were two people in the house who were awake, why did they suddenly catch fire?

Before He Angelica approached, he was stopped by Pu Cao: "County Lord, it's very dangerous over there, you must not go over." The princess asked the slave to serve you, just because she was worried about what would happen to you. ”

"What do you mean by that?" He Angelica frowned and looked at her, "The Yanwang Mansion is quiet, and there are guards guarding it, what will happen?" ”

Pu Cao's face was embarrassed, and he pushed He Danggui into the house with both hands. "You can't help when you go out, so wait in the house, please." The more she was like this, the more strange He Angelica felt, and refused to go back to the house, wanting to go to the fire to see the situation.

Between the two of them, the fire gradually became smaller, and finally extinguished.

The leader of the team to put out the fire was the palace steward, and after the man led a group of guards in clean clothes to put out the fire, he quietly retreated. After a while, a middle-aged woman, dressed in exaggerated clothes, twisted her waist and walked outside the burned house to listen to the report of her subordinates.

He Angelica and Pucao also went over to see the situation. Pu Cao quietly told He Angelica: "The princess has not returned from the palace, and this one is Concubine Fang." He Angelica glanced at it from a distance, and the taste gap between His Royal Highness King Yan was really big, from the noble and elegant Princess Yan to the middle-aged woman with heavy makeup. When he hugged left and right, how could he adjust?

"As soon as the time passed, the door of the East Chamber was locked," Mama Wang, who was in charge of locking the door, knelt on the ground and reported to Concubine Fang, "The old slave heard that the outer courtyard distributed rice cakes, so he left for a while. ”

Pucao also explained: "This is to investigate the responsibility for the fire." ”

"Isn't there a fire in the house?" He Angelica was puzzled, "It should be caused by the people in the house not taking care of the lights and candles." ”

"But Mama Wang locked the door and took away the key, and the fire team couldn't get in, so this is her responsibility." Pu Cao said, "In this case, you will at least be punished with whipping in the palace." ”

Sure enough, the woman with heavy makeup asked her to drag Mama Wang out and whip her for forty, and Mama Wang collapsed to the ground in fright, and even called for mercy. Several people came up to drag her, but they couldn't drag her away for a while.

"Was anyone injured in the fire? What about Miss Niu? He Angelica asked Pucao softly.

Before Pu Cao could speak, the people who had entered the house to search had already come out with the door panel, and there was a dark man lying on the door panel. Looking at the figure, it is a gorgeously dressed girl, with a golden hairpin on her head, and she should be a master.

A well-dressed woman in blue came out of the crowd and stepped forward and said, "Miss Niu was not burned to death, her face is a layer of black ash, and her nose is also full of ash, it is very likely that she was smoked to death." Her hands were tied behind her back, and when she was found, she was still stuffed with a cloth in her mouth, and it was certain that she had been killed. ”

After hearing this, Concubine Fang said sadly: "How is this good? The princess left Miss Niu to be a guest in the palace, but now she was killed, the incident happened in the palace, and the Taifu Niu family will definitely not give up! ”

The woman in blue said firmly: "There is no other way, the only way now is to find the murderer and send him to the government for execution, so as to calm the resentment of the Niu family." ”

At this time, a person was also lifted out of the third room with the door panel, a woman dressed as a maid. The third room was burned to the lightest, and the maid, though blackened by the smoke, only coughed violently, still conscious.

"Peach," the woman in blue asked, "is your young lady alone in the house at night?" Has anyone ever come to her? ”

The maid coughed so hard that she shook her head and waved her hands.

The woman in blue sighed and gently persuaded her: "If you see anything, say it quickly, and we can report it to the government to investigate." Now that your young lady is dead, she only takes you a maid to live here, and when the fire comes out, the door is also locked. If you don't make it clear, then we will have to send you to Yingtianfu for torture. ”

The maid was in tears, covering her mouth and coughing, and a pair of fawn-like eyes stared at the boss, and they were full of frightened light. She lay on her side on the door, her eyes slowly drifting over the faces of a large circle of onlookers, and finally she stretched out a finger and shivered to designate......

What Angelica!

The focus of everyone's eyes shifted to the ground.

"Me?" He Angelica said strangely, "I kept talking to the Xiancao County Lord in the room before she left." I only work as a female celebrity in the room, and I have never been to Miss Niu's room. ”

"Oh no, no!"

As soon as He Angelica's words fell, someone ran in a panic and said: "The county lord of Xiancao fell into the small mirror lake and drowned!" ”