Shen Jingcheng saw that Qin Jixian was silent, and he didn't know what he was thinking, so he bowed down and saluted him again.

"If the prince has nothing else to do, then the next official will go back with his wife and sister-in-law first, this time I fell into the water, my family witnessed it with their own eyes, if they don't go back, they don't know what to worry about."

"Feel free to do whatever you want." Qin Jixian came back to his senses slightly when he heard this, looked deeply at Gu Xiu and Fu Yu again, and then turned around and left.

Shen Jingcheng waited for Qin Jixian to go away, and then turned around and said to Fu Yu, who was still standing there, "Let's go with people on your back." ”

"Huh?" Fu Yu was stunned by what he said.

"My little sister's feet are like that, do you still want her to go by herself? When will I be able to get home? Shen Jingcheng winked at him as he spoke, and the corner of his eye glanced in the direction Qin Jixian left.

Fu Yu suddenly understood something, and hurriedly squatted down in front of Gu Xiu.

"I'll carry you, if you don't go back, Sister will be worried." Gu Xiu didn't know what lawsuit the two were fighting, so she obediently leaned on Fu Yu's back and let him carry himself.

When the three of them strode towards the west, Qin Jixian, who had already walked a distance, slowly stopped, looked back at the backs of several people, thoughtful.

Somehow, he always felt as if these people were hiding something from him.

But before today, except for Shen Jingcheng, he was almost unheard of and unseen of the other two, what was there to hide from him?

Qin Jixian thought hard to no avail, and finally returned to his original doubts.

In fact, if he hadn't had a skin-to-skin relationship with Gu Ling'er a few days ago and had more and more contact with her, he wouldn't have been so sensitive to the girl's voice today, and he wouldn't have discovered this problem.

Yes, the current Qin Jixian and Gu Ling'er already have a skin-to-skin relationship, but this matter is a bit oolong.

Just a few days ago, Qin Jixian inspected the river for a day, and when he returned home, it was already very late, he was very tired that day, so he didn't want to take a bath, so he let the entourage who had followed him for a day go back to the room to rest.

Because he was tired, he didn't bother to light the lamp, because when he was lying on the bed and noticed a fragrant body around him, he thought that he was too busy these days, and the concubine in the backyard was unwilling to be lonely and came to wait for him, so he pressed it without hesitation.

He is a normal man, and he is also a normal man who has been married, after his wife died early due to illness, he didn't want to marry again, so he placed a pleasing looking concubine in the backyard, and the only one who could go to his kang in the whole palace was that concubine.

However, when he entered the body of the woman next to him, a scream almost didn't scare him away.

It's just that this woman's voice is not the voice of his concubine at all.

In a hurry, Qin Jixian held the lamp and saw that the person on the warm kang was Gu Ling'er, and his mind didn't turn around.

At that time, he asked Gu Ling'er why she was in her room, Gu Ling'er cried and said that she wanted to come to him to change her job, because she swept the floor and had back pain, and she couldn't stand it. But he was always away from home every day, and Gu Ling'er couldn't find him, so he waited for him to come back in his room, and when he was tired, he wanted to take a break on the kang, but he encountered this incident.

At that time, Qin Jixian's head was so big when he heard it, and when he turned around, he punished the housekeeper heavily, can anyone enter his room? Can anyone come up and rest on his ondol?

But things have happened, Gu Ling'er is a woman from a good family after all, plus he thinks that Gu Ling'er has a little kindness with him, and it is not good to send people casually, so he wrote to the old emperor to make Gu Ling'er a concubine, and just the day before yesterday, the old emperor's reply came, just one word - 'quasi'.

To tell the truth, he was not disappointed when he received the old emperor's reply.

He knew that he was dispensable with the old emperor, but he didn't expect it to be so dispensable, and even if he wanted to marry the daughter of a grass man as a concubine, the old emperor didn't care.

But for the old emperor's ignorance, although Qin Jixian felt aggrieved, it was not unbearable, after all, the thunder and rain were all Jun's grace, and his mother was still in the palace, even if it was for his mother, he had to endure it.

However, the old emperor didn't care about him, he didn't care, he was the one in charge of the life and death of him and his mother, but others treated him as a monkey, which was absolutely impossible.

Qin Jixian returned to the tent where he was temporarily resting on the embankment with a tense face, changed into ordinary clothes, and took the Qin guards to Qingshan County, Qingzhou Prefecture.

When he found Shenjia Village in the evening, looked at this seemingly familiar shop street, and found the place where he had been lying, his eyes immediately became extremely dark.

Unexpectedly...... It's really here.

Qin Jixian closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and instructed the Qin guards beside him: "Go and find out if there is a person named Gu Ling'er in this village, and then inquire about Shen Jingcheng's wife and sister." ”

"Yes." The guards took the order and went away, and did not return until it was dark for a long time.

"Master, there is no one named Gu Ling'er in this village, Shen Zhixian's wife's sister's surname is Gu, her name is Gu Xiu, and her sister, that is, Shen Zhixian's wife, is called Gu Jin. Almost all of the people here were refugees brought by Shenzhi County from Shimu Village, Dongjin County, Jishui Prefecture eight years ago. In the past eight years, the Shen family has never had any relatives visit, including Mrs. Shen's maiden family. ”

There is no such person as Gu Ling'er, and Shen Jingcheng's wife and sister-in-law are also surnamed Gu?

Qin Jixian listened to the report of the guards, was silent for a long time, and said in a deep voice: "Go to Shimu Village in Dongjin County." ”

The same surname Gu, similar voice, even if Shenjiacun has never had such a person as Gu Ling'er and such a similar voice, he felt that it was too much of a coincidence.

What's more, he always felt that the woman named Gu Xiu seemed to be a little similar to Gu Ling'er.

In the night, Qin Jixian rushed to Shimu Village with a group of guards, and when a few people arrived at Shimu Village, the sky was already bright, and the people of Shimu Village had already begun to work in the fields.

"Uncle, may I ask if there is a person named Gu Ling'er in your village?"

"Gu Ling'er? Uh......, yes, yes, but last spring she fell into the river and drowned, what are you looking for her? ”

"Huh? Drowned? ”

"That's right, after the girl drowned, her father gave her a yin marriage at that time, and she didn't even pull the corpse home, and her father moved away with the whole family a few days later, and it was the girl who was too tormented and broke her father's heart......"

Qin Jixian stood on the ground and listened to the conversation between the pro-guard and the person in the field, and his heart sank little by little, until the pro-guard asked about it, Qin Jixian suddenly asked, "I don't know if you remember when Gu Ling'er died?" ”

"Uh......, is this ......" The person who was asked by Qin Jixian frowned and tried to remember, but after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't remember the specific day, and just when he was about to say that he had forgotten, he was interrupted by a gloomy voice.

"February 26."

Qin Jixian looked over when he heard the sound, and saw a man covered in dirt, sitting on the ground looking at him with a gloomy gaze, he was holding a shovel in his hand, and beside him was the new soil that had just been turned over, and it seemed that he was turning the ground just now.

When the man saw him looking over, he raised his head and repeated: "The day Gu Ling'er died was February 26. ”