As soon as Jiang Ning's words came out, the air in the room froze for a moment, and the three of them did not speak with a tacit understanding, and even their breathing seemed to be a little softer.

As for who exactly is forced to appear, the answer is naturally self-evident.

"We have to prepare in advance." Mu Jingzhao spoke softly.

Jiang Ning nodded and responded, "According to the other party's habit of making a move, it should be tomorrow, putting aside the possibility of sending the news back, then it will be a little uncertain." ”

"There is one more doubt." Mu Jingzhao was silent for a moment, "In every case, all the people who were burned to death were the masters of the family, and there was no one who was subordinate. ”

Jiang Ning thought about it for a while, and couldn't help but feel a little frightened.

According to the women, the fire spreads while everyone is asleep, so how can the master's house wake up in the fire and escape, or if the servant accidentally doze off and is in trouble?

"But I want the minister to go and find out the tone of the homeless people I saw that day."

Mu Jingzhao bowed slightly, as if he was thinking about something.

If all the masters are killed, and all the slaves escape, then the greatest possibility is that someone in the master's daily diet is drugged and falls asleep, and then there are bad people waiting for the opportunity to set fire.

Those who can drug the master's house without knowing it, but escaped smoothly, are naturally the closest servants around.

But if you kill your master's family and reduce yourself to a situation where you can only wander around and beg for a living, why bother?

Halfway through the logic, he suddenly fell into a dead end, Jiang Ning twisted his eyebrows, and couldn't help but have a headache.

Although she didn't have a clue, the hand she was holding the teacup unconsciously pushed it farther away.

"If you go now, you will inevitably be startled." Mu Jingzhao slowly spoke, "Today, you all pay a little attention to your diet, even if you eat in front of others, you have to find a way to spit it out, and try to find a way to pretend to be unconscious at night." ”

His words were uttered very slowly, as if there was careful thought and consideration in every word.

"Our own Praetorian Guard should not be so easily rebelled, pay special attention to the original servants in this house."

Both nodded solemnly.

At this moment, Li Zinian's voice came from outside the door.

"Childe, dinner is ready."

The three of them glanced at each other, Mu Jingzhao nodded slightly to Lin Zheng, Lin Zheng understood, got up, slowly retreated to the dark place in the house, and extinguished the lights in the house.

Mu Jingzhao took Jiang Ning out of the door.

When he walked to the bottom of the porch, he saw a maid in a green cloth shirt smiling at the two, "Childe, madam, please." ”

This maid is extremely good-looking, and she wears the maid's costume that the house originally equipped.

Mu Jingzhao and Jiang Ning glanced at each other, and they both read the uneasiness in each other's eyes without the slightest concealment.

But he didn't say much, just followed the other party's footsteps slowly.

The three of them walked to the end of the path and turned a corner in the direction of the main hall, the sky was already revealing a royal blue, and an orange sunset fell horizontally on the right-angled mountain in the distance.

The smell of fresh paint, the right-angled mountains of memory, the charred roots, the similar road into the city, all of these things are linked together to form a somewhat brutal truth.

"What's wrong?" Mu Jingzhao saw that she didn't move, and his face was a little confused.

At this moment, the afterglow of the sunset fell on her face, casting a warm orange light on her face.

Her big clear eyes were red by the sunset, but there was a dead silence inside, a silent dead silence.

But then, he followed the line of sight she was looking at, and smiled a little dotingly, "Your temperament that loves to watch the sunset has not changed at all." ”

His body was slightly on one side, and he happened to file Jiang Ning in front of him tightly.

Fu waved his hand at the maid, "You go first, our lady wants to see the sunset, let's go after reading." ”

"Yes."

It wasn't until the girl turned around and left that the merry smile on Mu Jingzhao's face disappeared in an instant, his expression was solemn, and he hurriedly spoke, "What's wrong?" ”

Jiang Ning's brows were tightly locked, her face was pale, she opened her mouth slightly, but only a few simple "ah, ah" syllables came out of her mouth, and she couldn't even form a sentence with a complete meaning.

She felt that her heart hurt so badly that she stroked her chest hard, gasping for breath, but the deadly feeling of suffocation lingered.

Mu Jingzhao stepped forward and gently took her in his arms.

He patted his palm on her back, and said softly in his mouth some words that searched his stomach but was still weak, "It's okay, it's okay." ”

Jiang Ning's big breath drove her back to rise and fall violently, and her wheezing sound was heavy and exhausted, like a fish that was thrown ashore in an instant, trying her best to find her familiar oxygen, but in the process of searching, she suffocated a little bit.

"It's okay, it's okay." Mu Jingzhao patted her back for a moment, then withdrew his hand, trying his best to circle her with both hands, trying to calm her down with the strength of his arm.

The people around him come and go, and they can't help but look like they are looking at them and gossiping.

I don't know how long it took, Jiang Ning finally calmed down in his arms, her whole face buried in Mu Jingzhao's arms, and she spoke in a slurred voice.

"This is my home."

Mu Jingzhao's body instantly stiffened.

There is so much information in this short sentence.

However, in this Qingshui County, there is probably only one place that can be called home by Jiangning.

However, that place was supposed to have been reduced to ashes three years ago.

So, the origin of this place is self-evident.

After the Jiang family's mansion was burned to ashes, Shen Tong bought the land and built it into his own mansion.

Mu Jingzhao couldn't help but recall the list that Lin Zheng brought not long ago, and all the victims in the list were all salt officials and salt sellers who were now in service.

He was shocked in his heart, three years ago and today's tragedy are cleverly connected together, the same modus operandi, the same style, the former kills salt merchants, and the latter kills salt dealers.

Today's catastrophe must be the embers of the tragedy three years ago, revenge, provocation, and a kind of madness that almost ended up together.

Mu Jingzhao's palm gently stroked the top of Jiang Ning's hair, and gently pressed her head into his arms, he tilted his head slightly and pasted his side face up, "It's okay, it's going to be okay." ”

I don't know if I'm comforting Jiang Ning or comforting myself.

Immediately, he patted Jiang Ning lightly on the top of his head, "Let's go, if you don't go, it will be suspicious." ”

If you want to make enough of this scene, then this dinner must be eaten.

(End of chapter)