She said lightly that the Cao family would reveal their true colors soon. Shen Chen stared at her. After a while, he closed his eyes and knocked on the table next to him: "Are you so sure that the Cao family is related to what happened in my family back then?"
The reason Shen Chen was willing to help her was simply because the people behind the Cao family might be the same people who framed Marquis Pingxi. For revenge, of course he would not give up even the slightest hope.
Of course, he was not a fool. Just because Wei An sent Yang Qinghe, he decided to follow her plan.
He just couldn't forget that strange and weird dream until now.
In that dream, Wei An, who had become a woman, was cruel and ruthless, and she knew the truth about the death of Marquis Pingxi.
No matter what, Shen Chen felt that the combination of his dream and Wei An's performance was really like a manifestation of the gods.
Wei An knew Shen Chen's dilemma without even thinking about it.
Although Prince Linjiang treated Shen Chen as his own son, he was just that. Even biological brothers in ordinary families could become enemies for the family property, let alone the royal family
Shen Chen's life has never been as easy as it seems.
But even so, Shen Chen felt guilty at the end of his previous life and said he could help her escape and hide her identity.
She thought of the past, and the gentleness in her eyes faded away, turning into a bone-chilling coldness. She smiled with an ambiguous meaning, and suddenly raised her voice and said firmly: "I promise that you are not doing useless work. The Cao family is not innocent. They must have stained the blood of Pingxi Hou and ate the blood of others..."
Shen Chen stopped talking nonsense, stood up and prepared to go out.
Wei An called him again, and when he looked over, he hesitated for a moment and then lowered his head: "I want to make another deal with you." She said: "If you find out something from Cao Wen this time and confirm that what I said is right, can you do me a favor?"
Shen Chen didn't comment, put his hands behind his back, and went downstairs quickly.
Su Ping and Wen Xiu came in shortly afterwards, and were relieved to see that she was still calm. They asked her, "Miss, shall we go back?"
"No." Wei An smiled, his eyes were so bright that people dared not look at them directly: "Let's go to a place."
The place Wei An went to was Caishikou in the west city. The area was dirty and full of people of all kinds, so it was not a good place to go. Su Ping and Wen Xiu dressed up as servants and followed Wei An, who was dressed as a child. They felt their palms were sweating. They followed Wei An, turning left and right, and finally stopped in front of a low house.
They had just arrived in the capital and were not familiar with it, but this did not prevent them from knowing where this place was. They asked Wei An worriedly, "Miss, this place is so dirty..."
Not long after she finished speaking, the door of the house opened and a thin and shapeless woman with a headscarf on her head staggered out with a basin of clothes in her hand and ran into them.
The woman was wearing baggy clothes that didn't match her figure at all, making her look even thinner and more terrifying. Su Ping looked at her skeleton-like fingers and actually felt a little scared. She glanced back at Wei An.
It was at this time that the woman reacted. She put down the wooden basin, turned around, closed the door, locked it, and walked past Wei An and the others to go out.
Wei An, who had been like a wooden man, finally spoke up and called out to the man, "Miss Qi, if you leave like this, if something happens, the little boy inside is only two years old, and I'm afraid it will be too late for him to run away, right?"
Facing the vicious look that the woman suddenly turned towards him, Wei An smiled instead.
The first half of her previous life was ridiculous and she didn't know a lot of things, but there were always some facts that were so serious that she knew them, such as the person in front of her now.
She knew that this Miss Qi was Zhu Fang's childhood sweetheart, Zhu Fang's mistress, and had given birth to a son for Zhu Fang.
When things were going well, it was said that Zhu Fang had spent a fortune on her and helped her rent a house on the street opposite the Lin'an Marquis's Mansion to house her lover. He also promised her that he would let her move into the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion in the future.
These were the things that happened after the son born to Miss Qi grew up. They were a big deal in the capital and everyone knew about it.
The story of how the top scholar stood up for his mother and condemned his father's beastly behavior after he became successful was more interesting than the stories written in the vernacular novels. It was so popular that it soon spread throughout the capital.
Wei An also learned a lot of things because of this, for example, what Zhu Fang valued was that Miss Qi's father used to be a member of the Arsenal of the Ministry of War, was extremely skilled in smelting, and had many smelting secret recipes, so he pretended to be nice to Miss Qi.
But later the iron mine was returned to the Zhu family, and Miss Qi's father did not work hard in the Zhu family. No one knew where the Zhu family had ended up. After the novelty wore off, Zhu Fang gradually became indifferent to Miss Qi. In the past one or two years, she was even treated like a worn-out shoe, and Miss Qi ended up in her current state.
Miss Qi turned her head suddenly, stared at Wei An for a long time, and said in a hoarse voice: "Who are you? What do you want to do?"
Wei An said nothing, his eyes fell on the lock, and then asked: "How about we go in and talk about it?"
Miss Qi's eyes changed after a long time. She moved over step by step, opened the lock, and let them in.
Wei An walked past the bamboo poles used to dry clothes and walked into the house without looking around. He stood in the hall and did not move. He turned around and looked at Miss Qi who had just come in and was already out of breath. "Miss Qi, are you washing clothes for others to earn money?"
She smiled, looking distressed: "The daughter of a fifth-rank official, a rich lady, has to rely on laundry to supplement the family income. Zhu Fang is really not a good person."
Miss Qi seemed extremely surprised. She suddenly raised her head and stared at her intently, with a look that seemed to want to kill her.
The little girl in front of her looked no more than ten years old, and she was not very tall, but her aura was really unbearable to look at. Miss Qi felt for no reason that she was shorter than she actually was. She moved her lips again and again, but in the end, she didn't say a word.
There were so many things she wanted to ask, but when the time came, she didn't know how to start or what to ask.
Very few people knew about her relationship with Zhu Fang, but the little girl in front of her looked like she knew it very clearly. She was alert in her heart, and finally swallowed her saliva and spoke in a hoarse voice: "What do you want to ask?!"
Perhaps it was because there were more people and more noise in the room that startled the child lying on the kang next door. As soon as Qi Wei finished speaking, a loud baby cry suddenly came from the kang on the other side of the wall.