That night, the rain had stopped, and the early summer evening wind was a bit dry.
A touch of cold moonlight spreads on the loquat leaves outside Meng Qiqi's window.
Meng Eqi took advantage of Sheng Jiayan and the others to fall asleep, changed into a simple dress, and took the long-handled knife and hung it around his waist. He quietly slipped out through the back door of the Gao Mansion.
I don't know if it was because of her special luck tonight, there were no night watchmen around the back door, and no patrolling nurses. Only then did Meng Qiqi run out smoothly. According to what she knew about Youzhou City in her memory, she ran in the direction of Dahanlou.
Why did she act like this, from before dinner...
Before dinner, she heard the whispers of the two maids who served her in the porch.
"Has Ruan's body been sent away?"
"I saw the housekeeper let someone carry her out, and the drooping hand was swollen. It was really scary."
Another maid sighed: "It's cruel to ask your wife. Then Ruan served my sister for at least a few years. After her death, the wife didn't pay for the burial, so she was dragged directly to the mass grave."
"What's so strange about this, you don't know Madam's methods yet? Wasn't that maid named Su He also kicked out by Madam? Even if she was pregnant with the young master's flesh and blood, Madam didn't show any affection. Now Hearing that she is being raised in Xu Langzhong's house in the city, I'm afraid that as soon as the child is born, she will have to..." The maid stopped, wiping her neck.
"Farewell, how scary the night is! Is your Xu Langzhong the one from the Xu Zihao next to the Dahan Building?"
"That's right, it's that one. Su He has been raised in his house for many days. It was four months since she was pregnant when she was sent away?"
What happened behind them, Meng Eqi didn't have the heart to listen to it anymore.
The whispering of these two maids tonight is definitely the most useful information that Meng Eqi has heard in the corner of the eavesdropping! A few days ago, Meng Qiqi found out that she had the ability to detect subtle movements, so she took this pair of handmaids as a test. Going up to what concubine's yard Mr. Gao went to today, going down to sweeping the floor and looking at the doorkeeper Ah Huang. Meng Eqi listened to the gossip in the Gao Mansion, and finally got the information she wanted today.
So she sneaked out quietly while Sheng Jiayan and others were fast asleep.
Meng Eqi walked all the way, and the footsteps made a rattling sound when they stepped on the bluestone ground.
It was late at night, and there were few people on the street.
Meng Eqi ran into an alley behind the Dahan Building by feeling. The alley was dark and terrifying. Standing at the entrance of the alley, he could only see the dim light from the lanterns inside.
Meng Eqi paused, then unconsciously grabbed the saber at his waist, and stepped inside cautiously.
Feeling in the dark, he found the plaque engraved with the words Xu Fu, Meng Qiqi looked left and right, and decided to climb over the wall.
She easily jumped over the white wall with the rungs in front of her, as if she hadn't done much before.
There was an unusual silence in the Xu residence, it could even be deadly—
Meng Eqi walked around the shadow wall cautiously, the surroundings were quiet, a full moon hung on it, and the bleak moonlight shone down from the gaps in the shadow wall.
"What smell..." She covered her nose and frowned, feeling sticky under her feet.
Meng Qiqi lowered her head and almost screamed out in fright.
There were dark red viscous bloodstains everywhere on the ground, as well as corpses scattered in the yard.
The dead corpses in that place fell to the ground crookedly, and some of their eyes were not closed, and their faces were protruding, which was extremely terrifying. Some had a blood hole in their chest, which was stained through their clothes.
There was an unpleasant smell of blood in the air.
She took a step back, and before she could shout in panic, someone covered her mouth.
"Don't make a sound!" A sharp voice sounded in his ears, and the trembling ending of his words revealed the same mood he had with Meng Qiqi at this moment.
Meng Eqi caught a glimpse of the patterns of birds and beasts on his sleeve, and wanted to break free from his restraint, but the man behind him swept his gaze to the corpses in front of him again, and immediately retched against the wall.
Meng Eqi took three steps and took two steps to get some distance from him, standing opposite him and said in surprise: "Fang Bao? Why are you here!?"
Fang Bao raised his head and saw that Meng Eqi was scanning himself suspiciously, and immediately wiped the corner of his mouth with his sleeve: "What are you looking at, I didn't do it!"
Meng Qiqi took a step back silently after he finished this sentence: "Who else can you have!?"
Fang Bao was so angry that he was about to jump. He had been knocked out and thrown here. When he woke up, there were corpses around him. How could he know who killed him? I was thinking of smearing oil on the soles of my feet to get away, but who knew that someone suddenly came in. Now that he was seen, he really couldn't wash it out.
"My lord, I was plotted by someone else! I didn't do it when I was knocked unconscious and left here! Can I still be done by you?" We didn't kill people, let's go."
Meng Qiqi was stunned for a moment, then quickly caught up with him: "Are you trying to abscond in fear of crime!?"
Fang Bao was angry: "Who am I going to abscond in fear of crime!? Let's abscond in fear of crime together!?"
At this moment, Fang Bao had just stepped on the steps of the gate, and a red shadow was thrown from the eaves, covering Fang Bao's whole body. Rao is that he is a little skilled and can't avoid it, falling to the ground and rolling a few times.
Meng Eqi was sighing in her heart that she was so careless and not leaking, when suddenly another whip was thrown from the eaves and flew straight towards her. Meng Eqi resisted with a knife, and someone from the eaves said coldly, "Oh, you want to resist arrest?"
Resist arrest? You resisted arrest, and your whole family resisted arrest! She didn't kill anyone, couldn't she block the attack from the whip!
The man jumped down from the eaves, and at the same time the gate was pushed open, a group of officers and soldiers rushed in with torches, and surrounded Meng Qiqi and Fang Bao, who was tied to the ground.
The officers and soldiers pointed their spears at Meng Qiqi, as if they were quite vigilant.
ha? ! The plot isn't going right...
Meng Qiqi immediately said: "Misunderstanding! This must be a misunderstanding!"
The man who jumped down from the eaves was dressed in silver armor, tall and straight, and his resolute face was full of chills.
Fang Bao's face was on the ground, and he even shouted in a muffled voice, "Miss Meng, run away! I'll break!"
Break your uncle! It's strange that you don't suspect that we are murderers when you call people like that!
Sure enough, as soon as Fang Bao finished speaking, the silver-armored general swung the whip at Meng Eqi again, with swords and spears of the officers and soldiers on the left and right. Meng Eqi had no way to retreat, so the whip wrapped tightly around his waist.
"Hang them up and hang them on a nearby tree to see if they can attract comrades!" General Yinjia said, and then someone helped Fang Bao up.
Meng Qiqi was wrapped in the air like a zongzi and hung in the air, and Fang Bao, who was constantly struggling, met four eyes, big eyes.
The two seemed to see four words in each other's eyes.
Big things are bad.
General Yinjia stood under the tree and looked up at Fang Bao, with an undisguised disgust on his face: "Master Fang, you must have been wronged. You are a waste. Judging from your usual performance, it is true It is impossible for one person to kill twenty-three people from the Xu family."
Fang Bao grabbed and nodded desperately: "Since you know, why don't you let me go!?"
General Yinjia shook his head and pointed to Meng Qiqi: "So you brought helpers."
Fang Bao grimaced: "Fuck! I'll tell you Nie Xin, if you don't let me down, you'll feel better when grandfather comes!"
Then the general named Nie Xin looked at him: "I will fulfill you, and then I will inform the old man." He called some officers and soldiers: "Watch this place, and don't allow anyone to approach."
Then he turned around and left, Meng Eqi hurriedly leaned over to Fang Bao's place: "Do you know this person?"
Fang Bao looked at Nie Xin, who was far away, angrily: "He is the adopted son of my second uncle. But isn't he the commander-in-chief of the guards guarding Youzhou? Why does he come to manage the affairs of the yamen..."
After all, he seemed to dislike this Nie Xin very much, and added: "I'm afraid that the dog will take the mouse and meddle in his own business. Anyway, he always likes to do this kind of thing, hum!"
When Sheng Jiayan and Mo Chunfeng arrived, they saw this scene.
Meng Eqi and Fang Bao's two dumplings were hanging on a tree and swaying, surrounded by corpses.
Seeing Sheng Jiayan's figure appearing at the door, Meng Qiqi quickly stretched out a hand from the hole and beckoned desperately: "Master! Master, I am here!"
Sheng Jiayan swept over with an indifferent look, paused on Fang Bao's face, and then asked Nie Xin, "Is there any misunderstanding in this?"
Meng Eqi's eyes filled with tears. It's better to be the prince. He always appears at critical moments.
Nie Xin sneered: "Misunderstanding? I received a secret letter earlier that the murderer of Xu's house will appear in the house today." He pointed to Fang Bao: "I'm afraid this is the main culprit—" He looked at Meng Eqi again: "That's an accomplice."
"Nie Xin, you crazy!" Fang Bao was wrapped in his pocket and kicked and kicked, the branches swaying wildly.
"Fang Bao, calm down! If you do this again, we will both fall!"
The clamor on the tree really made Nie Xin frown, only to hear him say, "Neither of them can escape the matter tonight, if you want to prove his innocence, then show evidence to the government office, I'll wait for you. ."
After speaking, his two darts knocked down Meng Qiqi and Fang Bao who were hanging on the tree. The two immediately rolled around on the ground, during which it seemed that Meng Qiqi had pressed Fang Bao's hand, and the latter scolded her mother in a very unpolished manner.
At this time, an old man with white clothes and white hair hurried in, surrounded by several guards, leaning on crutches, and saw his unsatisfactory grandson lying on the ground and tied up at a glance, he hit hard. A few turns of the dragon head: "Nie Barrier!"
Nie Xin bowed his hands to the old man: "Grandfather, I'm going to arrest the suspect now. It's dewy in the middle of the night. Please take care of your health."
After all, he didn't show much affection. As soon as he waved his hand, some officers and soldiers carried Meng Eqi and Fang Bao and left behind him.
Meng Qiqi watched Sheng Jiayan standing there, thinking deeply about what he was thinking, but he didn't even stop him at all!