Chapter Ninety-Five, Talking in the Night
[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, the twenty-seventh day of March, the time of Xu, the hazelnut residence of Xufu]
After Xu Ke returned to his mansion, he went all the way inside, and came straight to Hu Yiyi's Hazelnut Residence.
At this moment, most of the people in his house had already fallen asleep, but he had doubts in his heart, so he ignored the defense of men and women, and walked directly into the small courtyard of Hazelly Residence.
Xu Ke raised his hand and knocked on the door, and whispered:
"Sister Hu, are you asleep?"
The door opened, and Hu Yiyi's beautiful voice and shadow met Xu Ke's eyes.
"What's the matter? Xiao Wuxi, I haven't drunk enough wine outside, and I have to drink two more glasses with my sister?"
"Sister Hu, do you know that your sister killed King Han?"
Hu Yiyi smiled in his eyes, and wanted to make a joke with Xu Ke, but Xu Ke chose to go straight to the point and directly stated the reason why he came late at night.
"Jiaojiao killed King Han?" Hu Yiyi heard this, her face also changed, she glanced into the inner room, guessing that Yao Zibei must have fallen asleep at this moment, so that she could walk out of the house and walk with Xu Ke to the Wenyu Pavilion in the back garden and sit down.
Although it was spring today, the weather was extremely cold, and it was late at night, Xu Ke was afraid that Hu Yiyi would be freezing, so he took off the white fox fur coat on his body and draped it on Hu Yiyi's body.
Hu Yiyi glanced at Xu Ke, with a slight smile in his eyes.
This fur fur was originally Hu Yiyi's thing, and since Yao Zibei came to Xu's mansion, she gave her clothes to Yao Zibei. Early this morning, a spring cold came suddenly, and Yao Zibei specially took this fur fur from Hazelin and draped it on Xu Ke. Now, this fox fur coat, after going around in a circle, has actually returned to her own body......
Hu Yiyi touched the soft fox coat, and couldn't help but feel an indescribable emotion in her heart. She was not only moved by Xu Ke's sincerity and intimacy, but also felt extremely sorry for her sister Zibei. Sister Zibei obviously likes the little Wuxian in front of her deeply, but because she loves her too deeply, she doesn't want to marry each other in the end. And she herself has always wanted to try her best to promote Zibei and Xiao Wuzhi to be together, but until now, she is powerless. Just like the fox fur she is wearing at the moment, what the fox fur contains is the purest love in the world! Even though she is willing to give all the love and warmth in this world to Zibei, however, this fox fur finally returned to herself......
Mortals in the world, no matter how much they struggle and go up and down, in the end, they still can't escape the mercy of fate, and those lingering love and marriage are probably like this......
"Sister Hu, didn't you say that Mao Jiaojiao is kind by nature and will not kill people at will. She hid in the Cuiyun Mansion this time, and although the 'Harmony Technique' she practiced was to absorb the essence of the man's body, but the way to cast the spell was 'widely sown and thinly harvested, and the fine water flowed for a long time'?
"Xiao Wuxi, what is the number of this King Han, how can he appear in Cuiyun Tower?" Hu Yiyi asked rhetorically.
Xu Ke said: "King Han, his name is Li Zuo, and he is the sixth son of the emperor today, just because the five princes in front of him and the seven princes in the back died at an unfortunate age, and the emperor is particularly fond of him." As for why this Li Zuo appeared in the Cuiyun Tower late at night, I don't know much about it......"
Hu Yiyi said: "The ninth sister has promised me before that she will never kill people at will, and my sister believes in her, and she will not suck people to death indiscriminately." Moreover, she has been in Cuiyun Tower for more than ten days, and before, she has never heard of her killing other men. Xiao Wuxi, there must be a secret in this matter!"
Xu Ke asked: "What does Sister Hu mean, Mao Jiaojiao killed people, maybe she had to suffer?"
Hu Yiyi nodded, and then asked rhetorically: "Xiao Wuxi, how do you assume that it was the ninth sister who killed that King Han?
Xu Ke replied: "Don't hide it from Sister Hu, the first person to discover this case is one of the hundred households of my Qingyi Weibei Anping Division, his name is Gu Caixiang." That night, Gu Caixiang was ordered to take people to 'patrol the night', and when he passed by the area of Pingkangfang, he suddenly heard a woman's exclamation from Cuiyun Building, so he led people to break in......"
So, Xu Ke told how Tsing Yiwei found out that Han Wang Li Zuo died suddenly in Cuiyun Building, and how he arrested the suspect and blocked the scene, but escaped a top-brand female prostitute called "Jiaojiao" alone, and how Gu Caixiang saw a little flower cat running to the roof late at night and then disappeared in an instant, all of which were told to Hu Yiyi.
However, that night, Gu Caixiang was obviously ordered by Nangong to be silent, and deliberately ambushed outside Cuiyun Tower to monitor every move inside, but Xu Ke said that he was just ordered to patrol the night......
After listening to Xu Ke's statement, Hu Yiyi was silent for a while, and then said:
In this way, King Han probably died in the hands of the ninth sister, and the red and white little flower cat you said was the original body of the ninth sister. I just don't know, why didn't the ninth sister kill anyone for more than ten days, but she killed that King Han alone?"
Xu Ke thought for a while, and then asked:
"Sister Hu, could it be that your second brother Lu Huoli discussed with Mao Jiaojiao and asked Mao Jiaojiao to deliberately kill King Han so that he could hand over to him as the lord of Xiao Guo? The purpose of their trip to Chang'an is to assassinate a certain prince, so as to take the opportunity to disturb our great Qian's court and make the Qianguo world uneasy!"
Hu Yiyi nodded and said, "What you said is not unreasonable! It's just that my sister never thought that the second brother came to Chang'an to lurk in Chang'an this time, and his purpose was to assassinate a Han king! Besides, even if this Han king died, what impact would it have on the Daqian court? Do you think that after the death of the Han king, he will be able to stir up chaos in the Qianguo world?"
Xu Ke also smiled: "I heard that this King Han has no other skills, he is usually good at fighting crickets and playing with juju, and he is given a nickname by the whole court, called 'King of Fun'." After he dies, at most, it will be for the emperor to consume the national treasury and hold a grand funeral for him, and the rest, I'm afraid it really doesn't matter!"
Hu Yiyi said: "That's it! With the wit of the second brother, how could he do such a meaningless act? The hidden truth in the middle is to wait for me to meet the ninth sister, and then ask her carefully!"
"So much the best!"
......
Xu Ke originally wanted to say one more thing, because King Han was killed by Mao Jiaojiao, so the two hundred or so people in Cuiyun Building might all be killed by the chain, but when his words came to his mouth, there was still no exit.
After all, the weather is cold today, and it is almost dark at this time, Xu Ke no longer talks to Hu Yiyi, and hurriedly urges Hu Yiyi to hurry back to the Hazelling residence to sleep.
At this moment, the night is deep, the west wind is tight, and a few chaotic leaves in the back garden are blown by the cold wind and roll all over the ground, hula and la. After Xu Ke sent Hu Yiyi back to Zhenling Residence, he quietly returned to his Honghu Residence. Before he entered the gate of his courtyard, he could not help but look up at the sky, but saw that there were no stars and no moon in the sky, and all around was dark and gloomy, except for a large dark cloud, which was gathering above his head, and the clouds were getting denser and thicker, as if there was a torrential rain that was about to slam down on this house......