Hong'er, whose hand had already reached the door handle, was so frightened that her body trembled.
Following Wen Qingzhu, he turned around and saw a gentle and jade-like young man walking in.
Wen Qingzhu looked at the visitor with an extra level of scrutiny in his eyes.
The person who came was none other than Pei Yi from Prime Minister Pei's Mansion.
She could barely understand that Pei Zhixuan showed up at Wen's house because Miss Zhou invited her to come with her.
But Pei Yi rarely shows up in the capital, and not many people know him.
"Mr. Pei, why are you here?"
After several meetings, Wen Qingzhu did not shy away from anything and asked directly.
Pei Yi walked to them and stopped, looked at the trembling wooden door, and asked Wen Qingzhu: "Do you know what is locked inside?"
Hearing this, Wen Qingzhu smiled slightly: "Then Mr. Pei, what do you think is locked up here?"
Pei Yi and Wen Qingzhu looked at each other and suddenly laughed: "Turns out I was overthinking it. Miss Wen had already prepared it, but when I came over, I happened to meet a maid. Would you like Miss Wen to come over and have a look?"
Wen Qingzhu glanced at Hong'er and ordered: "You stay here and don't open the door. I'll be back later."
Hong'er was just a third-class girl in Wen Bogui's family. With a master like Wen Qingzhu, she didn't dare to say anything and nodded.
Following Pei Yi out of the small yard, he passed through an unmaintained deserted path and came to an abandoned hut.
The door of the room was ajar. Wen Qingzhu walked over and heard the whimpering sound inside, as if someone had been gagged and unable to move.
"The person is inside." Pei Yi reached out and pushed open the door.
The beam of light shone in, and it turned out that a maid in green clothes was tied up. When she opened her eyes, she saw that it was none other than Qiu Ling, the maid next to Wan.
When she saw Wen Qingzhu, her eyes widened in shock, and then she looked at Pei Yi, struggling more and more violently.
Wen Qingzhu walked in, squatted in front of Qiu Ling, and smelled the smell of benzoin.
Qiu Ling looked at Wen Qingzhu's calm eyes, but she became even more frightened, and tears flowed out, as if she was praying.
Seeing her like this, Wen Qingzhu reached out and touched her fair and delicate face: "Sister Qiu Ling, although you are doing this to do things for your master, you must still remember what happened to Dong Ling. Since you are stubborn, I have to send you off in person. Made the same mistake again.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Wen Qingzhu searched her body and found a small jar with a delicate fragrance floating in it.
After playing with the jar in his hand, Wen Qingzhu suddenly unscrewed the lid of the jar and handed it to Qiu Ling's nose.
Qiu Ling began to squirm crazily, trying her best to retreat.
But she couldn't help but smell the scent of benzoin.
After Qiu Ling fainted, Wen Qingzhu stood up, handed the benzoin to Lu Tao, then looked at Pei Yi and asked: "Master Pei, thank you very much this time. There will be a good show later, do you want to stay with us?" Take a look?"
Seeing Wen Qingzhu's smile gradually losing its warmth, Pei Yi hesitated for a moment, then nodded to express his willingness to stay and take a look.
Less than half an hour later, a group of people suddenly appeared near the abandoned courtyard.
At this moment, Oriole was very nervous and followed quietly, looking ahead.
The people walking at the front were Wen Qingfang and Pei Zhixuan.
Wen Qingfang asked Pei Zhixuan very worriedly: "Miss Pei, were you sure that Miss Wen came from this direction? Is that wrong? There are almost no outsiders here."
When she came here, Pei Zhixuan immediately understood that she was being used.
Shortly after she separated from Wen Qingzhu, she did look back and was very sure that Wen Qingfang was coming in this direction.
So when Wen Qingfang came over to ask her, she told her.
Unexpectedly, within a quarter of an hour, Wen Qingfang came back again, saying that Wen Qingzhu was missing and asked her to lead him over to have a look.
Pei Zhixuan wanted to refuse, but Wen Qingfang said in front of many people: "The only one who saw Sister Qingzhu in the end was Miss Pei. If it is really inconvenient for Miss Pei, then we should go and find it ourselves. No It will disturb Miss Pei and will not embarrass Miss Pei, but if something happens to Sister Qingzhu... "
On the surface, these words were meant to give Pei Zhixuan face and worry for Pei Zhixuan, but in fact they were telling everyone that if anything happened to Wen Qingzhu, it would be her fault, Pei Zhixuan's.
When she came today, she was already very eye-catching, and now she is even more the focus of everyone's attention.
After much hesitation, Pei Zhixuan followed.
But they didn't expect Wen Qingfang to take them all the way deeper.
At this point, Pei Zhixuan still didn't understand that she was being used completely.
Arriving in front of the abandoned courtyard, the woman at the front suddenly pointed to the ground in the courtyard: "Miss, there are a lot of tattered cloths on the ground. The color looks like the color of Miss Seventh's clothes today!"
As soon as these words came out, the expressions of the ladies who followed began to become subtle.
Wen Qingfang brought them here on purpose.
When they arrived at the courtyard, everyone found that the door of the house was ajar.
There seemed to be people breathing inside. At this time, some people didn't want to cause trouble and said directly: "Miss Wen, I have to leave first."
If someone takes the lead, the rest will naturally follow.
But the woman at the front stepped forward quickly and pushed open the door. A woman with almost only her inner clothes left and wounds all over her body appeared in front of everyone, lying flat on her back.
Seeing such a bloody test scene, some timid people screamed: "He's dead!"
Someone covered his mouth and the big man said: "Is... is it Miss Wen Qi!"
Pei Zhixuan looked over at almost the first glance and realized something was wrong.
She almost followed Wen Qingfang in. When she reached the door, Pei Zhixuan could vaguely see the outline of the face under the messy hair.
Pei Zhixuan paid close attention to Wen Qingzhu and saw that this person was not her.
Wen Qingfang, who arrived at the door, naturally discovered that this person was not only Wen Qingzhu, but Qiu Ling who she had sent to frame Wen Qingzhu.
She took a deep breath and was about to turn around and say something when a familiar voice came from behind.
"Why are you all here?"
Most people here have seen Wen Qingzhu more than once and naturally know her voice.
Looking back, she saw that not only Wen Qingzhu was here, there was also a handsome young man standing next to her.
Except for Wednesday, no one else knew Pei Yi.
Wednesday was even a little uncertain. Is this person really Pei Yi
Pei Zhixuan looked at her brother standing next to Wen Qingzhu, and her heart sank.
While the ladies were looking at Pei Yi and Wen Qingzhu and talking in low voices, Pei Zhixuan walked over and stopped at Pei Yi: "Brother, why are you here?"
Pei Yi's eyes were shining, and he smiled like a spring breeze and said: "I met Wen Jiu by chance a few days ago. Today the Wen family is very happy. He invited me over, so I came over. My sister, on the other hand, didn't like such occasions very much in the past. , why did Tao come here today?"
After saying this, Pei Yi politely saluted the ladies: "Excuse me."
Wen Qingzhu detected a hint of gunpowder from the conversation between them.
It seems that there is no harmony between the brothers and sisters
Wen Qingzhu remembered quite clearly that Pei Yi and Pei Zhixuan should be biological siblings.
Just seeing their appearance, Pei Yi said "Excuse me" again, Wen Qingzhu smiled and said: "Nothing happened here, right? If nothing happens, we will leave first."
When Wen Qingfang saw Wen Qingzhu standing in front of them, she naturally wouldn't say anything was wrong.
She smiled and nodded, looking at Pei Yi with ambiguous eyes: "It's okay, I just don't know when my sister actually met Mr. Pei."
Wen Qingfang worked hard to enter the Prince's Mansion.
Outsiders don't know Pei Yi's existence, but she knows it.
Pei Zhixuan admitted Pei Yi's identity from the beginning, so she would naturally not doubt it.
In this way, Wen Qingzhu was completely out of her calculations.
Wen Qingzhu covered his lips and smiled and said: "After I separated from Miss Pei, I met Mr. Pei when I was about to get here. He wanted to find Miss Pei, so I took him to find Miss Pei temporarily."
The flawless words made Wen Qingfang laugh out loud: "So that's it."
Wen Qingzhu smiled, turned around and led Pei Yi away in a dashing way, leaving the ladies still wondering when the Pei family had such a gentleman.
As they were about to arrive at the banquet, Oriole quietly caught up with him and said anxiously: "Fortunately, the lady is fine. I really didn't expect that Miss Six would find out about my arrangement in advance. The witness has been dealt with, but I still have a weapon in my hand." evidence."
After saying this, Oriole quietly handed Wen Qingzhu a bag of tips.
Wen Qingzhu took it in his hand and squeezed it. It seemed to be a broken jade pendant.
Oriole didn't dare to stay long, so he said something and quickly disappeared among the crowd.
After hesitating for a moment, Wen Qingzhu opened the bag of tips. What appeared in front of his eyes was a piece of yellowed ancient jade, with more than half of it missing and gray-black stains on it.
But seeing this piece of ancient jade, Wen Qingzhu's breathing stopped.
This ancient jade is not—
"Miss Wen?" Pei Yi noticed that her expression was suddenly abnormal, and Pei Zhixuan from behind was about to come over, so he called out.
The moment Wen Qingzhu came back to his senses, he immediately tightened his bag and put the things away. He turned around and smiled hypocritically: "Mr. Pei, I'm sorry, I'm a little tired. I need to be alone for a while."
Pei Yi nodded, looked back at Pei Zhixuan who was walking over, then turned and left.
Lu Tao followed Wen Qingzhu nervously. When Wen Qingzhu stumbled, she hurriedly helped him up and said worriedly: "Miss, what's wrong with you? Why don't we go back first?"
Hearing the word "go back," Wen Qingzhu suddenly calmed down.
Unexpectedly, this piece of ancient jade was always there in the main room. Wen Qingzhu laughed dumbly, and the hatred in his heart surged again.
Since they are unkind, don't blame her Wen Qingzhu for being unjust.
Back at the front hall, the bride has arrived.
Wen Qingzhu followed the people watching the ceremony and walked up, watching from a distance as Wen Mingyu, who looked reluctant, took one end of the hydrangea and led Xia Feiyuan, who was dressed in beautiful clothes, through the door.
Xia Feiyuan was covered with a red hijab, and Wen Qingzhu couldn't see her expression clearly.
However, from her slow steps, Wen Qingzhu was sure that Xia Feiyuan was not willing to marry in this way.
When we arrived at the door of the antechamber where we saluted, there was a threshold.
Wen Mingyu had already gone in, minding his own business. Xia Feiyuan behind him was walking very slowly. Without noticing, his front foot tripped on the threshold.
Seeing that Xia Feiyuan was about to fall down, fortunately, Xi Niang, who was accompanying him, hurried over to help Xia Feiyuan.
This time, Xia Feiyuan was completely angered.
She suddenly lifted her hijab, her face with stiff makeup suddenly twisted, and her voice became even sharper and harsher: "Wen Mingyu! If you don't want to marry me! Don't agree! After accepting the benefits of our family, now it's like turning your back. You recognize someone, right?”
The guests inside and outside the room suddenly stopped talking, their eyes wandering on Xia Feiyuan and Wen Mingyu.
The marriage between the Xia family and the Wen family was actually quite unexpected.
Moreover, Wen Guanbin passed away less than three months ago. Although it is okay to get married during the hot mourning period, it still feels too hasty after all.
Now that Xia Feiyuan was so disrespectful of the Wen family's face and directly revealed the reason for their marriage, it was like a slap in the face to the Wen family.