"Brother Jianghu, are you still reluctant to eat those oranges?" Wang Jiajia asked.
I touched a handful of oranges in my arms and smiled slightly: "Don't worry about these two. I'll keep them home to eat with my mother-in-law."
"Brother Jianghu, you are so filial."
"hehe."
I don’t know what else to say to her. Although this girl is always clinging to me, which is a bit annoying, she is still very popular when she talks. She always seems to find something to praise me every time.
Makes me feel very present.
Yes, a sense of existence. For a humble, poor boy selling tofu, someone can care about me, which at least proves my worth.
It’s just that she is a woman after all, and it is easy for people to misunderstand me like this all day long. I was very embarrassed when I went to Lao Meng’s house just now. When Lao Meng saw her cleaning the house quickly, washing and cooking, he praised me for marrying such a virtuous person.
The lady is lucky.
Hey, Wang Jiajia, are you trying to make everyone misunderstand?
"Then let's go to the inn and get the load and then go back? Or should we inquire about Sister Nuanxin's whereabouts again? Since Madam Mu is back, her brother and the imperial envoy should also be back. I'm afraid..."
When Wang Jiajia said this, I felt uneasy. Yes, the imperial envoy is back, has Nuan Xin gone to seek revenge on him?
"Go back to Jianghu Inn. Li Huichun should have told the imperial envoy to take more precautions. Let's go find Xiao Mu and see what he means."
"Xiao Mu!"
"Yeah." I nodded: "Maybe he will have a solution to both problems."
Wang Jiajia grabbed my arm and pointed forward: "I mean, isn't that Xiao Mu?"
I looked around and saw Xiao Mu walking towards us twenty steps away. Although autumn had already begun, he was still shaking his fan and his clothes had not changed.
"Brother Mu." I took a few steps forward and said, "Has the imperial envoy returned?"
"The imperial envoy is dead." Xiao Mu said calmly.
"What?" I was shocked, then smiled: "Are you... kidding?"
Wang Jiajia looked at him nervously: "Where is Sister Nuanxin?"
"With Long Yuhan." A strange smile appeared on Xiao Mu's lips: "If Long Yuhan asks you for help, you can help, but don't say you have met me."
Is there something wrong with this person's mind? He actually cursed the imperial envoy! The imperial envoy knew that Nuan Xin wanted to kill him, how could he let her succeed?
Xiao Mu said no more, waved his fan and turned around to leave.
"Brother Jianghu, does this little Mu have some problems here?" Wang Jiajia pointed: "Then what should we do now?"
"Go and take a look around the Governor's Mansion."
The two of us ran towards the governor's office at high speed. We were in a state of confusion. Xiao Mu's words were indeed irrelevant, but why did he joke about something that mattered to human life? The imperial envoy died? This is unacceptable in any case.
…
"Li Jianghu!"
A carriage stopped beside us, and the driver shouted to me.
I was stunned: "The dragon catches the head?"
"Get in the car quickly!" Long Yuhan said nervously, his head was sweating profusely, and even his eye circles were red.
I felt that something must have happened, otherwise the leader of the Tianyan team, who had always been calm, would not have such a look. Wang Jiajia and I looked at each other, without thinking much, and quickly got into the car. When I opened the door curtain, I saw Nuan Xin lying in the car.
"Sister Nuanxin, Sister Nuanxin." Wang Jiajia hugged her and shouted.
"What happened?"
Long Yuhan drove the car into a remote alley and finally stopped.
"The imperial envoy is dead," he said, tears welling up in his eyes.
"ah?"
"Nuan Xin poisoned the imperial envoy's wine." Long Yuhan glanced at the woman in the carriage: "You are Nuan Xin's friends, so I will hand her over to you. Take her away quickly and leave Xiangzhou City.
, tell her never to come back, everything will be borne by me alone."
"No, this...what happened?"
Long Yuhan's voice was also a bit more choked up: "Nuan Xin pretended to sell herself to bury her father, and was funded by the imperial envoy. The imperial envoy asked her to go to the governor's house to find him at any time if she had any difficulties. As soon as the imperial envoy came back yesterday, she came, using the alias Su Xin, as Cheng
She was the imperial envoy's personal maid. Today at noon, she cooked for the imperial envoy and poisoned the imperial envoy's wine. After two cups, the imperial envoy fell to the ground, vomiting blood and lost his breath."
"How...how is this possible? Didn't the imperial envoy know that she was here for revenge? How could he be poisoned by her so easily?" I think it is really incomprehensible.
"Yes. The imperial envoy knows. While she was cooking, the imperial envoy told me to hide at the door to see how she poisoned him and to see if she could kill him. I thought the imperial envoy had any good ideas, so I was honest.
She was waiting at the door. Unexpectedly, the imperial envoy actually drank the wine she had poisoned.
It turns out that the way the imperial envoy thought of to make Nuan Xin give up his hatred was to actually make Nuan Xin take revenge.
Nuan Xin was heartbroken when she saw that the imperial envoy was dead. She asked me to tie her up and take her to prison because she also regretted killing a good official who truly loved the people like a son.
That's why I knocked her unconscious. Because it was not her fault. All the faults were mine. It was me who failed to protect the imperial envoy, and who was indifferent to the murderer's murder.
You take her away quickly. I will go back to Inspector Lei to plead guilty."
"Do you...you want me to do an autopsy? I always feel why is all this so weird?" I was a little confused.
"Nuan Xin and I have checked. The imperial envoy is really dead. You should go quickly. When someone discovers the imperial envoy's body later, the whole Xiangzhou City will be in chaos. If the Tubo people get the news, who knows..."
Long Yuhan said, handing the reins to me, looking in the direction of the Governor's Mansion with empty eyes, and holding the saber in his right hand tighter.
"Then take care of yourself." I thought of Xiao Mu's words just now, so I said no more, took the reins, sat at the front of the car, and drove the carriage away.
"Brother Jianghu, how could this happen? The imperial envoy...is he really dead?" Wang Jiajia was still in a daze.
I was also confused: "I don't know this either, let's leave the city first."
From here to the West City Gate, which is the closest, I drove there in less than two quarters of an hour. Looking at the row of soldiers standing guard, I suddenly became nervous. If they knew that the person in my car was the murderer who poisoned the imperial envoy, then
But what to do?
"Wait!"
I was really afraid of what would come. I tried my best to calm myself down, but for some reason someone still blocked my way.
I saw that the man was about 20 or 30 years old. Although his appearance was ordinary, there was an invisible fierceness between his eyebrows and eyes, as if he could see through people. His clothes were not those of ordinary soldiers guarding the city. He should be a guard.
The city's officer. No, no need to look, he said "Wait a minute", six ordinary guards with long guns surrounded the carriage.
"Xiangzhou City West City, City Gate Lang Quankang, from the sixth grade." He stood a long machete in front of him, and every word seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth.
Not thinking too much, I quickly got off the car, held the reins and clasped my hands deeply, swallowed secretly, took a deep breath, and replied: "I've met Mr. Quan in Li Jianghu. I wonder what you want to do?"
"Li Jianghu?" Unexpectedly, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Your home is in the fifth alley in the south of the city? You have a small tofu-making workshop at home? Do you usually deliver tofu to Jianghu Inn?"
I was shocked: "Yes."
"Have you run out of tofu today?"
I gripped the reins in my hand a little tighter and said, "Send it off. I sent it there before Chenshi. How do you recognize me, Mr. Quan?"
Quan Kang smiled slightly and took a step aside: "Let it go!"
Thinking that Wang Jiajia was still warm-hearted in the car, although I was a lot puzzled, I didn't dare to delay. Seeing the surrounding soldiers withdraw, I thanked him, got on the front of the car, gently pulled the reins a few times, and finally got out smoothly.
Got to the city.
"Brother Jianghu, you really scared me to death just now!" Wang Jiajia opened the car curtain and shouted. I looked back at her and saw beads of sweat hanging on the tip of her nose. I must have been very scared just now.
"Nuan Xin, are you okay?"
"Well, I'm still unconscious." Wang Jiajia responded: "Where are we going?"
"I don't know either, let's see what Nuan Xin means."
As I said that, I drove forward for about a mile, and then I heard Wang Jiajia calling excitedly: "Sister Nuanxin, you are finally awake!"
"What is this place? Stop the car!" The warm voice was still a little weak, but there was room for negotiation in the tone.
I stopped my horse with a scream: "Are you awake? We have left the city and are now in the suburbs. If we go further, we will reach Baokang County."
Nuannuan got out of the car with a heartbeat, her eyes were red, and she looked around: "Where is Brother Long?"
"Long Baotou went back to the Governor's Mansion, saying he was going to deal with the imperial envoy's funeral."
"Imperial envoy... haha, he is dead. Jiajia, do you know? It has been three years, and I finally killed him and avenged my sister!" Nuan Xin grabbed Wang Jiajia's hand with a smile on her lips,
The tears in my eyes were like floods bursting from a dam.
"Sister Nuanxin, it's okay. You should leave quickly."
"No, I can't leave." Nuan Xin shook his head resolutely: "I killed someone, I killed a good official who really worked for the happiness of the people. Do you know? After lurking for so long, all I heard was
The common people admired the imperial envoy. But now, it is me who has killed the imperial envoy and the hopes of the people of Xiangzhou! I will pay the due price for what I have done!"
I looked at the woman in front of me who was filled with joy and sorrow. I didn't know how to comfort her for a moment. I just thought why all of this was so unusual.
The imperial envoy is the backbone of our Xiangzhou, loved by the people, feared by the enemy, and the saints have high hopes for him... Did he really give up his life so easily, just for the sake of a palace maid he accidentally killed due to a miscalculation three years ago?
Could it be that the imperial envoy faked his death?
I was suddenly startled by my own thoughts. I remember Fatty Wang once told me that there is a rumor that there is a pill in the world that will put people into a deep sleep state after taking it, and their heartbeat and breathing will be so weak that no one can detect it. Maybe...
"Hey, Sister Nuanxin, Sister Nuanxin!"
Heart-warming? I heard Wang Jiajia shouting loudly, and then I came back to my senses. I saw a white shadow walking across the tree crown.
"Where is Nuan Xin going?" I looked in the direction of the West City Gate, feeling anxious again.
Wang Jiajia wiped away tears: "Sister Nuanxin just said that she must be responsible for what she does and cannot harm others."
"She...she wants to go back and surrender?"
"Yes." Wang Jiajia handed me a piece of snow-white silk handkerchief: "Sister Nuanxin said, please give this back to Long Cathead."
I unfolded the veil. This all-too-familiar veil was as pure white as frost and snow, and as thin as cicada wings.
Ice silk handkerchief!
That's right, isn't this exactly Madam Mu's veil? The autumn air is crisp at this time, and it doesn't feel cold to the touch, which is strange.
But, how did this veil come into Nuan Xin’s hands? Give it back to Long Cathead? Could it be that Long Yuhan gave it to Nuan Xin? Where did Long Yuhan get it from? This chapter has been completed!
