Cao Yongan glanced at the people around him, and all the people waiting in the room retreated, and the door of the room was closed.

"This person has a special identity, and I hope that the girl can keep it a secret and forget about this jade pendant," Cao Yongan said very seriously.

"Oh?" Qiao Xuan's eyes flickered, and he was quite curious in his heart, but he still nodded in response, "I won't go out and talk nonsense, don't worry, city lord." ”

Qiao Yuan and Xi He did not interject beside him.

"Thank you girl for getting rid of that ghost, the girl is my great hero in Jincheng, if there is any request, just mention it, as long as I can do it, I will try my best to meet the girl."

Cao Yongan's heart was removed, he was in a good mood, and he saw that Qiao Xuan was becoming more and more pleasing to the eyes, and his face was much gentler than before.

Qiao Xuan thought for a while, "There is no requirement, just give me the silver." ”

She risked her life and spent some effort, and she deserved to receive some rewards.

Cao Yongan only thought that Qiao Xuan was young and didn't know how to ask for something more valuable than silver, so he immediately set his eyes on Qiao Yuan.

"Just listen to her!"

Qiao Yuan only began to realize his strangeness to Qiao Xuan in front of him at this moment, he didn't know her, only that face was the most familiar to him.

In this case, Cao Yongan didn't say anything more, and asked someone to bring a stack of silver tickets to Qiao Xuan.

Qiao Xuan took it and put it up, no longer caring about how many silver tickets there were.

Qiao was shocked when he saw it from afar, and the silver ticket was thousands of taels to say the least.

Qiao Xuan and Xi He suddenly changed from Qiao Yuan's "poor relative" who secretly entered Cao's Mansion to Cao's distinguished guests.

They were settled in the largest and most luxurious courtyard of Cao Mansion, and the food they prepared was the best.

At night, Qiao Xuan, who couldn't sleep, rolled over and got out of bed, pushed open the window and found that the moonlight was bright outside, which was very quiet and beautiful.

She put on her clothes and went out.

There was no one in the yard, the night wind was gusting, not cool, and it was very comfortable to blow on the body.

The lanterns in the corridor flickered slightly.

Somewhere in the garden.

The light of the fire in the brazier on the ground illuminated Cao Yongan's face, and he squatted on the ground with a handful of paper money in his hand and slowly put it into the basin.

"Do you know that the one thing I regret and regret the least in my life is to kill you?"

His voice sounded a little hoarse and gloomy in the silence of the night.

Qiao Xuan, who was in the dark, held his breath, he didn't expect that a trip under the moon could accidentally bump into someone else's secret.

She had no intention of snooping and turned around to leave, when Cao Yongan's voice sounded again.

"Who's standing there? Come out! ”

Qiao Xuan scratched his head, Cao Yongan's insight was really amazing.

She walked step by step from the dark to the light, and clearly captured the killing intent on Cao Yongan.

"I'm passing by!"

Cao Yongan didn't seem to hear Qiao Xuan's voice, still burning paper money.

After a while, the paper money burned out, the firelight disappeared, and there was only moonlight left in the courtyard, Cao Yongan stood up and looked at Qiao Xuan.

"You heard, I killed the man, the man in the river."

He wanted to see something from Qiao Xuan's face in the moonlight, but Qiao Xuan's expression was light, no fear, no surprise.

"Did he offend you?"

She just asked in a calm voice.

Cao Yongan lowered his eyes, walked to the side of the stone bench and sat down, "He is the third prince today." ”

Qiao Xuan's face changed slightly, he turned out to be a prince, which she didn't expect.

"He was the prince who was once the most favored by the saint, and he may have been too spoiled, which made him develop a wild, selfish and cruel temperament."

"Once he came to Jincheng to play, he took a fancy to a woman, the woman was resolute and categorically rejected him, and he used the entire people of Jincheng to threaten me to help him."

"You helped him?" Qiao Xuan asked.

Cao Yongan shook his head, "I didn't." ”

Although he could not bear the suffering of the people, who called the woman the person he cared about the most, he could not do it.

"The woman jumped into the Dayuan River and drowned in order to appease his anger, and the people present at the time were me and him, and I pushed him into the river in a fit of anger and asked him to pay for the woman's life, who expected him to become a monster in the river......"

Cao Yongan covered his face, and his originally stiff tone carried some self-blame.

After a pause, he added, "If I had to do it all over again, I would still make this choice!" I'm sorry to kill him, but the man who lost his life is just as innocent. ”

Qiao Xuan nodded, "The city lord did the right thing!" ”

If the truth is what he said, then there is nothing wrong with what he does, and the reason why the ghost thing has become powerful is because it has devoured the souls of those who have fallen into the water.

Cao Yongan looked at Qiao Xuan, his eyes were complicated, this matter had been buried in his heart for a long time, and he didn't expect to confide in someone he didn't know tonight.

"But if the city lord burned the paper money for him, then he wouldn't be able to collect it" Qiao Xuan's tone slowed down a little, and walked over and sat opposite Cao Yongan.

"He's gone."

"You can't be reincarnated, there's no afterlife!"

Cao Yongan was stunned, looked at Qiao Xuan in a daze, and didn't know what to say for a while.

After a moment, he seemed to find his voice, and asked in a trembling voice, "What about the woman?" ”

Qiao Xuan shook his head, "I don't know, there are two possibilities, either you go to reincarnation, or you are swallowed by that prince, and there is no next life." ”

After all, it was something that happened a long time ago, she couldn't have known about it, if she wanted to know, she had to go below and ask, it was true that her relationship with the city lord of Jincheng was not good enough to take risks.

Cao Yongan's face suddenly turned to ashes.

Qiao Xuan touched his nose and said no more.

"It's not too early, let's rest early!"

After adjusting his mood, Cao Yongan recovered his previous coldness, and after saying a polite and detached word to Qiao Xuan, he strode away.

On the branches of the moon, the screams of insects at night were sharp and piercing, Qiao Xuan pulled the clothes on his body and walked slowly towards the yard where he lived.

"Woo woo ~ woo woo."

When passing by the flower bed, a slight cry came, Qiao Xuan rubbed his eyebrows, and followed the sound and walked over.

A richly dressed woman sat in a pavilion wiping her tears.

Hearing the footsteps, the woman looked up, Qiao Xuan saw her face clearly, and the next second she couldn't help but think of the little girl who followed Cao Rongrong during the day.

The two look very similar.

"Who are you?" The woman was wary and stood up sharply.

"Qiao Yuan's daughter, Qiao Xuan."

Qiao Xuan saw that she was fine, so he said lightly and turned around and left.

The woman stared at Qiao Xuan's back, her face full of tears revealing coldness.