Chapter 25: Three Lives
"Girl, are you alright?" Chunling helped up Qiao Xiya, who fell to the ground due to Qiao San's vigorous dragging.
"Stop!" Qiao San caught a glimpse of the figure who intended to hide in the crowd, and ran away.
"Third Master Qiao." Qiao Xiya got up, rubbed her sore arm, and looked at the bustling crowd on the street, "That's it, since they dare to do it, they have already thought of a way out, you can't find him." ”
"Is the girl alright?" When Qiao San heard this, he had no choice but to give up and turn around to check Qiao Xiya's injuries.
"I'm fine." Qiao Xiya looked around, the crazy horse was long gone, "Let's go, go eat." Qiao Xiya helped Chunling and walked towards the restaurant tremblingly.
"Where have you been?" Qiao Xiya and the others sat down in the restaurant for a long time before they saw Yao Mingxi walking towards them.
"I saw that the owner of the teahouse was really pitiful just now, so I asked the restaurant guy to send them a few dishes." Yao Mingxi smiled and sat down.
"A few people, your dishes are ready, use them slowly." While talking, the restaurant guy served four or five plates of dishes and placed them on the table.
Qiao Xiya simply ate a few bites, and felt that her heart was really blocked, so she put down her chopsticks and looked at the sun outside the restaurant in a daze.
"Hurry up, hurry up, go and report to the official!" There was a noisy noise outside the restaurant, and the crowd quickly rushed towards the teahouse, and Qiao Xiya had a hint of foreboding in her heart. She got up and walked out.
"Bang!" Qiao Xiya, who had just left the door of the restaurant, bumped into a person.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." The man hurriedly helped Qiao Xiya to make amends.
"Bai Gongzi?" Qiao Xiya helped Chunling, who had just arrived, to stabilize her figure, and saw the person in front of her clearly, "Why are you back?" ”
"What are you still doing! Check it out! Bai Ning didn't pay attention to Qiao Xiya, but turned his head and scolded the officials who came with him.
The officials didn't say much, and quickly ran towards the teahouse.
"Why are you still here?" Seeing that the official took control of the teahouse, Bai Ning looked at Qiao Xiya.
"What's going on?" Qiao Xiya tiptoed and looked at the crowd on the inner and outer three floors.
"Well, maybe I'm a step late." Bai Ning sighed.
"What do you mean?" Qiao Xiya looked at Bai Ning inexplicably.
"I was in a hurry to go to the yamen to transfer people to protect the owner of the teahouse, but according to the current situation, I was one step too late." Bai Ning's face was full of chagrin.
"Protection?" Qiao Xiya frowned, "How do you know that the owner of the teahouse will be in danger?" ”
"He smelled the spices." Bai Ning glanced at Qiao Yilan coldly, as if she was disgusted for why she would ask such a stupid question.
"How? What's the situation? Wu Minchu panted and ran to Bai Ning's side.
"Delay!" Bai Ning glared at Wu Minchu with extreme disgust.
"My lord," the official who controlled the teahouse said to Wu Minchu with a fist, "The person is dead." ”
"Dead?!" Wu Minchu looked at Bai Ning with wide eyes, "Bai Gongzi...... This ......"
"Look what I do! If you hadn't hesitated, maybe they wouldn't have died! After that, Bai Ning ignored Wu Minchu's astonishment and walked towards the teahouse.
He's dead. The news of the death of the owner of the teahouse made Qiao Xiya stunned in place, and her mind was blank at the moment.
"Girl, girl?" Chunling saw that Qiao Xiya's face was pale and her eyes were blank, so she was so frightened that she hurriedly shook her arm, "Girl! ”
"Huh?" Qiao Xiya relieved herself, looked at the evacuated people and the teahouse surrounded by the officials, and said in a trembling voice, "Let's go and have a look." ”
The Yuhu Spring Teahouse was empty, the teahouse owner and his son were slumped behind the counter, there was still a little foam at the corners of their mouths, and there were two overturned plates of food on the ground.
Qiao Xiya held Chunling's hand and stepped back again and again, shaking her head incessantly, her eyes were full of tears: "Chunling, I hurt them...... I hurt them......"
"Murder!" Just when Wu Minchu and the others were investigating the cause of the death of the teahouse owner, a heart-rending scream came from the restaurant behind them.
Bai Ning rushed out of the teahouse like an arrow, and went straight to the restaurant with everyone open. Wu Minchu also followed with two servants.
The people who were eating on the first floor of the restaurant were now standing aside, forming a circle, and in the center of the circle, next to an overturned table, a young man lay motionless in a pool of blood.
Qiao Xiya covered her mouth in disbelief and stepped back step by step until she hit a solid chest. She turned around in shock, but she met Yao Mingxi's gaze.
"Don't be afraid." Although it was only two simple words, it inexplicably made Qiao Xiya feel at ease.
"What's going on!" There was a murder under his nose, which made Wu Minchu's face a little unbearable.
"My lord," said one of the officials, "I asked the people who were drinking tea in the teahouse just now, and they said that the boss suddenly fell to the ground and died after eating the food delivered by this restaurant. ”
"The food delivered by this restaurant?" Wu Minchu's murderous gaze went straight to the restaurant owner.
"My lord, I have been wronged," the restaurant owner took two steps forward, looking terrified.
"Wronged?" Wu Minchu sneered, "As far as I know, you are not related to the owner of the teahouse, why did you suddenly send him a meal?" ”
"My lord! This meal isn't what I'm going to deliver! This was specially ordered by a son, and asked the guy to send it. The restaurant owner hurriedly defended himself.
"Who?" Wu Minchu took a step closer towards the restaurant owner, and looked directly at the restaurant owner with both eyes, "The person you are talking about is you, right?" ”
"It's really not...... the owner of the restaurant wanted to cry without tears, and looked at the crowd of onlookers with an anxious face, "It's him!" Suddenly, the restaurant owner's eyes lit up, and he raised his arm sharply and pointed straight at the crowd.
Wu Minchu looked at the restaurant owner's arm, and the person who caught his eye was none other than Yao Mingxi.
Wu Minchu hesitated, but still walked in front of Yao Mingxi: "The restaurant owner said that Yao Gongzi asked the guy to deliver the meal to the teahouse owner?"
"Yes, it's me." Yao Mingxi's face did not change color, and her heart did not beat.
"You ......" Yao Mingxi's reaction made Wu Minchu a little confused, he paused, and continued, "That's the teahouse owner you poisoned?" ”
"Hey, Lord Prefect, you can eat this meal indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense." The corners of Yao Mingxi's mouth rose, "What basis do you have to say that I poisoned the owner of the teahouse?" ”
"As far as I know, Yao Gongzi is a newcomer to Huizhou, right? It's not an old friend with the owner of the teahouse, so why do you want the restaurant to send the food there? Wu Minchu squinted at Yao Mingxi.
"Today, Miss Qiao came to the teahouse to ask the boss about the disappearance of his child, I saw that the boss was crying really sadly, and I didn't know how to persuade him, so I thought about sending some food over to chat about my heart, what, Lord Prefect, Huizhou is not allowed to invite others to dinner?"