But on the surface, she looked at Qi Yao expectantly, hoping that the Tangtang Princess would accept the tattered things that Yu Qingfeng had made up in her own time and could not give away to anyone else. She only gave three tattered things to the kitchen aunt.

Qi Yao turned to look at Pei Wuyan.

Yu Qingfeng's heart suddenly sank. How could a princess far away in the feudal land know that her bracelet was a gift from Pei Wuyan? It couldn't be so powerful, right?

Pei Wuyan looked indifferent, as if he was watching the insignificant excitement.

But Yu Qingfeng could hear the cry in his heart. He and she were the same. They didn't want Qi Yao to take away the token of love between them?

At this moment, Su Niang stepped into the room, followed closely by Fan Zhizhou.

"Your Highness, Lord Pei, Lord Lin, Lord Lian," Fan Zhizhou saluted one by one. It was Yu Qingfeng's turn. He paused, straightened up, and greeted with a strange expression, "Yu Sizhi."

Yu Qingfeng does not blame Fan Zhizhou for his attitude toward her. Firstly, she is a female official. It is not surprising that these ancient male officials have such an attitude towards female officials. Secondly, her official position is indeed lower than that of Fan Zhizhou. Thirdly, Yu Qingfeng wants to thank Fan Zhizhou.

This step appears now.

Yu Qingfeng quickly retracted the hand raised in front of Qi Yao, turned around and saluted Fan Zhizhou, who had a higher rank than her, "Master Fan, Qingfeng is polite."

Fan Zhizhou nodded and smiled at Yu Qingfeng, which was considered as giving Dali Temple enough face.

Qi Yao had already returned to the main seat and sat down with Su Niang's support.

Yu Qingfeng pretended not to be interested, but just to be on the safe side, she raised the bracelet in her hand again, wanting to present the worthless bracelet to Qi Yao like a treasure.

Lin Ming coughed suddenly and shook his head at Yu Qingfeng in an obvious way, meaning: The princess doesn't want her anymore, why are you so blind?

Yu Qingfeng pretended to be enlightened and sat down with a smile. She also remembered this small favor from Lin Ming. If it were Pei Wuyan who did this, it would inevitably make Qi Yao suspicious again.

Qi Yao's performance proved that she was not sure whether Yu Qingfeng's bracelet was a gift from Pei Wuyan, she was just suspicious.

Qi Yao was testing, and Yu Qingfeng gave up in this test. She was unwilling and did not dare to confront Qi Yao because she cherished her life.

Assessing the situation, they are now in Qi Yao's territory; Qi Yao has at least one master beside her; Qi Yao has a distinguished status and a clear purpose. If she wants to get rid of Yu Qingfeng, this stumbling block, she has the right time, place, and people.

But what about her, Yu Qingfeng? Who knows if that heroine halo is already in place above her head.

Yu Qingfeng didn't mind keeping a distance from Pei Wuyan in front of Qi Yao, pretending that they had nothing to do with each other. She didn't mind even more, and expected Pei Wuyan to cooperate with her, acting as if there was no personal relationship between the two, proving that the rumors from the outside were just rumors.

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Anyway, Qi Yao is just a person involved in this case, a figure in the unit case, not a main character, and he can't always be with them.

It's just temporary patience and performance. When Qi Yao goes offline, she can still perform sweet and ambiguous scenes with Pei Wuyan and enjoy it.

At this time, Pei Wuyan must not be a pig teammate and bring hatred to her; must not show affection at this time just to show dedication, Yu Qingfeng is afraid of dying quickly.

Yu Qingfeng glanced at Pei Wuyan secretly, hoping that when their eyes met, the two of them could reach a silent understanding.

But Pei Wuyan didn't even look at her, all he could see was Fan Zhizhou, waiting for Fan Zhizhou to state the case.

Well, based on the tacit understanding between the two in the past, let's assume that Pei Wuyan already knows what Yu Qingfeng is thinking and is willing to cooperate.

Pei Wuyan responded to Qi Yao's words. He was a ruthless investigative tool who only focused on the case. He didn't care about the undercurrent between the two women. He just stared at Fan Zhizhou and waited for him to take the initiative to speak.

Seeing that Fan Zhizhou wanted to be polite again, he simply got straight to the point, "Master Fan, please tell me the details of the three missing cases."

Fan Zhizhou looked troubled and sighed: "It was originally three cases, but now...well, just two days ago, another person disappeared."

"Two days ago!" Lian Shurong was surprised, "Again, the ghosts kidnapped him in full public view?"

Fan Zhizhou shook his head, "Although it's not that, it's even more terrifying."

Lin Ming stopped Lian Shurong, who wanted to ask more questions, "Master Fan, please start from the beginning."

Fan Zhizhou had obviously made preparations for the report long ago and spoke eloquently.

The first disappearance case occurred half a year ago. The missing person’s name was Jiang Hongxi, 24 years old. He was a well-known talent in Annan Prefecture and was a good writer.

Jiang Hongxi's fame not only comes from his talent, but also from his arrogance, which is somewhat arrogant.

He often posted notices at the door of his house, asking him to make friends through literature. If he had similar interests, he could go directly to his house to ask him to compose poems or play pairs. If he lost, he would treat him to a drink.

In this way, Jiang Hongxi made many literary friends, who would gather at his home for poetry gatherings every now and then.

Why did he just go to his house? Because he is a single man and has no plans to marry and have children. It seems that Jiang Hongxi is not interested in women and wants to spend his whole life with Wen Zhang.

His home was almost bare-walled, and the food, food, and shelter were all in tatters, but the four treasures of his study and study had to be of the highest quality.

Hearing this, Yu Qingfeng thought of a word: Internet addicted boy.

Jiang Hongxi is a young man addicted to literature.

King Xiaonan indeed sent his counselors to invite Jiang Hongxi to write an article for him, but he was indeed rejected. Not only that, Jiang Hongxi also wrote an article that satirized King Xiaonan and invited literary friends to read and analyze it in the tavern.

There was a commotion all over the city.

As much as Yu Qingfeng cherished her life, Jiang Hongxi wanted to die.

On the night of the incident, Jiang Hongxi invited three literary friends to his home to drink and write poems.

The more the four of them drank, the more excited they became, and in the end they were all dizzy. Just when the drinking party was about to end, two ghosts walked in from the front door in a swaggering manner. First, they stood in the yard and stared at each other.

He looked at them and then let out an eerie cry.

Although the sound was weird and harsh, it was obvious that they were calling Jiang Hongxi.

Everyone was frightened. They were already drunk, and the fright made their legs weak and unable to move at all. The two who wanted to run fell to the ground.

Jiang Hongxi also had no way to resist. He could only be like a ball of cotton and let the two ghosts who came forward pick him up one by one.

Immediately afterwards, the two ghosts floating in the air took Jiang Hongxi, who was also floating, and floated away together.

After the incident, Fan Zhizhou summoned three witnesses and asked his chief bookkeeper who was good at drawing portraits to draw the ghost's face based on their descriptions.

The three people described it separately, and the ghosts they drew were similar.

When Fan Zhizhou said this, he took out a small scroll from his sleeve and unfolded it for everyone to see.

The two people in the portrait have green faces and fangs, green hair on their heads, and green fluorescence emitting from their entire bodies.

The fangs are exposed outside the mouth, one upward, wishing to insert it into the nostril; the other downward, wishing to insert it into the neck.

One has horns on its head, vaguely resembling a bull's head; one has a long and thin face, which reminds people of a horse's face.

One wears black; the other wears white. They are covertly plagiarizing or paying homage to the impermanence of black and white.

"You really draw from the strengths of others and incorporate everything into something eclectic." Pei Wuyan was amused by the terrifying ghost portrait.

"This Jiang Hongxi only reads books from sages, is not a womanizer, and does not want to have a family," Yu Qingfeng interrupted before Fan Zhizhou continued to talk about the second case, "So is he a local?"

The first and second parts of this question are simply incomprehensible to people who don’t know the inside story.

Fan Zhizhou was puzzled.

Lin Ming quickly repeated the question and urged Fan Zhizhou to answer, "Master Fan, did Jiang Hongxi move here when the state was established ten years ago?"

"Back then, His Majesty assigned me and the Minister of Household Affairs to be responsible for the resettlement of the people in Annan Prefecture. On the one hand, it was to appease the people of the original Bonan Kingdom after the war, and on the other hand, it was to attract the surrounding Dayong people to settle down with tax exemptions and donated houses. So.

Most of the Dayong people who moved here were poor. I was deeply impressed by Jiang Hongxi because he was only 14 years old at the time, but he was already well-spoken and his luggage was full of books."

Yu Qingfeng was a little disappointed. She thought that the clues would really come to her door by herself. This mission happened to meet the people they were looking for, the palace servants who were dismissed after the death of the first empress.

It's a pity that Jiang Hongxi is not the eunuch who moved here six years ago.

The second missing person, Xishi, was named Mu Jiayin and was eighteen years old.

Qi Yao did not mention a key detail when he was telling the story during the New Year. This candied Xishi was actually a native of Bonan.

Mu Jiayin was taken away by ghosts at her wedding three months ago. Her marriage partner was Ye Xuanlang, a tailor from Dayong who was known as the most handsome man in Annan Prefecture.

There are few intermarriages between the two peoples in Annan Prefecture. There were no couples in the first eight years of the state's founding year, but only six couples in the past two years. They are the sixth couple.

The previous five couples have all divorced so far. Even if they are lovers, they are still no match for the interference of the seven aunts and eight aunts of the husband's family. Coupled with the racial prejudice and estrangement, not to mention the hatred between the country and the family?

The wedding on the night of the incident actually had very few guests, only Ye Xuanlang's mother and five neighbors.

Mu Jiayin's parents opposed the marriage and had completely broken up with their daughter. Not only did they not attend the wedding, but they also removed their daughter from the family tree. From then on, the candied Xi Tzu was no longer a candied Xi Tzu. She was supposed to become the proprietress of a tailor shop.

At that time, Mu Jiayin had already entered the bridal chamber first, and Ye Xuanlang and his son entertained five neighbors, some of whom were tipsy and others very drunk.

At this moment, Mu Jiayin screamed from the other side of the bridal chamber. Before Ye Xuanlang staggered out to check, two ghosts and Mu Jiayin had already appeared in front of the door.

Because of the previous incident where Jiang Hongxi was taken away by a ghost, the neighbors were so frightened when they saw the ghost this time that they all hid under the table and shivered.

Regardless, Ye Xuanlang stepped forward to snatch the semi-conscious Mu Jiayin from the ghost's hands, but was stopped by his mother.

Ye's mother held on to Ye Xuanlang tightly, fearing that ghosts would take her son with her.

Here the mother and son were tugging and tugging, while over there Mu Jiayin was carried away by two ghosts.

The descriptions of the ghosts by the Ye family, mother and son and the guests were exactly the same as before. Showing them the previous portraits, they all said that this was the case.


Chapter completed!