Summary of the previous chapter: Li Qinghan and Ma Xiaoquan were angry and returned to Ma's house alone. Wang Tigan took advantage of this opportunity and kidnapped Li Qinghan...
Ma Xiaoquan went directly back to Ma's house after leaving Feng Lai Building.
Since everyone in the family went out to worship their ancestors today, the only one left at home was Li Qinghan's personal maid Xiaohuan.
But...after Ma Xiaoquan entered the house, he walked around for a long time without seeing Xiaohuan.
"It's strange... It doesn't matter that my sister-in-law is not here. Where can that little girl Xiaohuan go?" Ma Xiaoquan scratched his head and covered his stomach, "Forget it, there is no one if there is no one. I guess the sister-in-law will take the little girl away." Please call Huan out, I'd better get myself some food first."
When he walked to the door of the kitchen, Ma Xiaoquan saw a petite body lying under the chopping board. He couldn't help but be shocked. He took two steps over and looked down and saw that it was Xiao Huan.
"Xiaohuan, Xiaohuan..." Ma Xiaoquan reached out and patted Xiaohuan's face gently.
Xiaohuan slowly opened his eyes, and then rubbed the back of his neck. When he saw it was Ma Xiaoquan, he said angrily: "Fourth Young Master, you must have hit me, right? You knocked me out, right?" "
Ma Xiaoquan looked innocent: "Should I hit you? Should I knock you unconscious? Xiaohuan, please stop telling lies with your eyes open. I just came back."
"You just came back?" Xiaohuan stared at Ma Xiaoquan in disbelief.
Ma Xiaoquan said with some embarrassment: "Well, I just came back from Fenglai Tower..."
"Humph" Xiao Huan rolled his eyes at Ma Xiaoquan upon hearing this, "No wonder the fourth young master smells like rouge and gouache..."
Ma Xiaoquan pulled Xiaohuan up and asked, "Xiaohuan, where is my sister-in-law?"
"Ah" Xiaohuan patted her head, "The eldest lady said she wanted to eat noodles with soybean paste, and I was about to make them for her..."
"Huh? Sister-in-law is back?"
Xiaohuan nodded: "Yes, Miss came back very early. She doesn't seem happy staying in the house..."
"Isn't it right?" Ma Xiaoquan shook his head, "I've been around for a while, but I haven't seen my sister-in-law yet? Xiaohuan, who knocked you out?"
Xiaohuan shook his head: "I was kneading dough, and someone knocked me here..." Xiaohuan pointed to the crotch of his neck.
"It's strange," Ma Xiaoquan asked, "Xiaohuan, you said my sister-in-law has come back and is in her room?"
Xiao Huan nodded.
"No, absolutely not!" After Ma Xiaoquan said this, he quickly turned around and ran away.
Xiaohuan also felt something strange, so she put down the dough in her hands and followed Ma Xiaoquan to Li Qinghan's boudoir.
No big abnormalities were found in the boudoir, and the doors and windows were closed tightly.
Ma Xiaoquan walked to the door of the boudoir and knocked twice: "Sister-in-law, are you there? I am Ma Xiaoquan."
"Sister-in-law..."
"Sister-in-law..."
Xiaohuan also came forward and shouted: "Miss, are you in the room?"
"Huh? No one? No." Ma Xiaoquan pushed towards the door. There was only a creaking sound as the door was pushed open by Ma Xiaoquan.
I rushed into the boudoir and took a look, but there was nothing there.
"Miss? Where is the eldest lady?" Xiaohuan asked Ma Xiaoquan anxiously.
Ma Xiaoquan asked, "I still want to ask you. Didn't you say that my sister-in-law is back? Where is she? Why is she missing?"
When Xiaohuan was asked this question by Ma Xiaoquan, she burst into tears.
"Okay, don't cry. I'll apologize to you, okay? It's just a sister-in-law who is so big and disappears just because she says she doesn't see you."
Xiaohuan wiped the tears from her face and said with choked sobs: "The eldest lady rarely goes out. When she usually goes out, she will definitely tell Xiaohuan... Fourth Young Master, please, please do it."
Find Miss, okay, let me, Xiaohuan, do anything, do anything..." Xiaohuan said, knelt down in front of Ma Xiaoquan, and kowtowed to Ma Xiaoquan.
Ma Xiaoquan pulled Xiaohuan up: "Xiaohuan, don't be like this. My sister-in-law is from my Ma family. Don't worry, even if you don't ask me, I will definitely find my sister-in-law."
Xiaohuan flattened her mouth and nodded heavily: "Yeah."
...
Ma Xiaoquan turned his head and observed carefully.
"Huh?" When he walked to the window, Ma Xiaoquan found a small hole in the window paper. He approached the hole and smelled it carefully.
"Xiang?" Ma Xiaoquan's heart trembled, "Being kidnapped with a premeditated plan? Isn't that right... With my sister-in-law's skills, unless she is a martial arts person like Brother Lin Feng... an ordinary person
Who can do anything to her?"
Ma Xiaoquan walked out of the boudoir door mumbling to himself and carefully searched for clues in the boudoir.
Li Qinghan's boudoir is not far from the outer wall of the Ma family's mansion, and that outer wall was renovated a few days ago.
Ma Xiaoquan walked to the outer wall and took a closer look. There were several shoe prints on the outer wall.
"Well, it should have been dug in from here... hmm? This shoe print?" Ma Xiaoquan moved a little closer.
"This is..." Looking at the shoe prints on the wall, Ma Xiaoquan seemed to have seen it somewhere, or in other words, he had worn shoes that could make such shoe prints...
Xiaohuan came up and asked Ma Xiaoquan nervously: "Fourth Young Master, have you discovered anything?"
Ma Xiaoquan stood up straight, exhaled, turned to Xiaohuan and said: "No, Xiaohuan, don't tell grandma about sister-in-law's absence for the time being. I will go find sister-in-law now. When grandma comes back, you can tell her that she and I are together."
Let’s go out for a walk together, do you understand?”
Xiaohuan nodded: "I understand."
"Okay, then I order you now to clean the kitchen and make a big bowl of fried noodles. When my sister-in-law and I come back in the evening, we will eat the fried noodles you made."
After all, Xiaohuan is still young. When Ma Xiaoquan said this, the little girl thought that Ma Xiaoquan had found the eldest lady, so she nodded happily and said, "Okay, Xiaohuan will go now."
Looking at Xiaohuan's little figure jumping away, Ma Xiaoquan shook his head.
Turning his head and looking at the shoe prints on the wall, Ma Xiaoquan snorted: "The eunuch's shoes... Wei Jinzhong... no harm will come to the family. This principle... don't you understand?"
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...
Wang Tigan led two of his men and jogged all the way to the gate of the Forbidden City.
Since the guards guarding the door had been ventilated in advance, as soon as the king's body was dry, the guards let him in without even looking.
Two men pushed a cart with a large cloth bag on it and followed Wang Tigan into the Forbidden City.
After entering the palace gate, the short and thin man quietly asked Wang Tiqian: "Your Majesty, where are we going?"