Cao Xiwan squatted down and explored Xiao Zheng's jugular vein. He was dead.
She checked carefully and found that Eunuch Xiao Zheng died with his eyes open and must have been silenced.
Being silenced in the palace? She sighed and looked at the dark courtyard under the moonlight. Then she stood up and looked at the neighboring rooms at the North Palace Gate.
All the people living in this area are handymen and eunuchs.
It's not surprising that there are spies among them. Puppets can be trained in the palace. If she is an ambitious prince, she will definitely bribe the eunuchs.
Or, is it the Marquis of Nankang?
Did it show up?
——She turned over Xiao Zheng's arms to see if there were any letters. She had been speculating on who was the big partner in the palace who joined forces with Song Chengming?
She was suspicious the last time he was taken to the palace prison.
Not to mention that Song Chengming only had the old lady in his heart, not to mention that he didn't mention his concubine at all. He was a loyal minister and a dutiful son, so he always felt there was something wrong. He told her the names of several eunuchs in prison, including his adopted son.
Su Wugou, the deputy general manager of the Heart Palace, is the godson of Eunuch Kai.
But she is not stupid, and these people are not important enough.
What is he hiding?
This is one of the reasons why she entered the palace.
As long as we find out which big boss Nankang Hou is with, we can understand what he wants to do behind the scenes.
Maybe he is also a rebel.
On the first day she entered the palace, the East Palace said to her in the Wenhua Inner Hall in front of Concubine Song: "Your Majesty is suspicious of the Marquis of Song. You need to see more and listen more when you enter the palace."
Didn't he just instruct her to look up Song Chengming? Dong Gong is really good at talking.
She looked at Song Liangdi at that time, and Liangdi nodded with a smile.
When she thought about it, she thought, rather than letting His Majesty investigate, it would be better for the Song family's son-in-law to investigate.
"I heard from Xiuyun that you have separated from our family?" Song Empress also asked, in front of the East Palace.
She didn't deny it.
Dong Gong was trying to bribe her. She sighed, how cute she was when she was a child, and she would do this.
There was fire in the stove, but Xiao Zheng's eyes were neither frightened nor angry, but calm, and there was a ferocious smile at the corner of his mouth.
Cao Xiwan frowned. She had seen many victims. The dead who were calm but never closed their eyes often knew that they would be killed, but they seemed to have a back-up plan.
She retracted her hands. There was no letter or paper in Xiao Zheng's arms. She had touched the seams of his clothes, but there were no clues.
She took the whistle away from Xiao Zheng's hand and took a closer look at the whistle. It was a rough imitation. Suddenly, she saw two shadows next to the body in the moonlight.
It was deeper in the middle of the night, the moon was high in the sky, and there were two people standing silently behind her.
She didn't get violent.
Cao Xiwan's hands were still holding Xiao Zheng's hand. She thought, she was not convinced by Bizhu now, but she could stand quietly behind her. None of her enemies had such ability. It was almost impossible.
.
Moreover, it would be even more strange to stand behind her and not kill her.
The Marquis of Nankang sent a puppet to kill her?
So, she said hello: "Hehe." [Coming?]
"Haha——" Someone actually answered.
She slowly turned her face and saw two figures behind her. They were indeed puppets covered in gray robes. One man and one woman.
"Heh-heh-heh-" The male puppet also said hello. She thought for a moment. She had just learned a few words from Xiao Chu, and the other party seemed to be saying: [I haven't seen you before]
She was wearing a gray robe and a scarf covering her face. Apart from being a little fatter, she was confident that she was a complete puppet. She was confident:
"Haha——" [Want to play in the mud together?]
"Oh——" [Okay.]
Cao Xiwan squatted down, sat on Xiao Zheng's body, and rubbed the mud in the yard.
Sure enough, two puppets, a man and a woman, squatted down like her and watched her play curiously.
"Haha——" [You just came to this yard?]
"Haha——" [He came yesterday.] The female puppet also pointed to the room behind the left compartment, indicating that her home was in the room.
She thought, sure enough, the thing that Xiao Zheng couldn't let go of was that he stole two puppets.
She had already suspected it, because she was a member of the palace in Mo Pavilion, so it was inevitable that she would visit the Elephant and Leopard Room in the palace.
The elephant house occupies a large area and is surrounded by dense woods.
If the Marquis sent people to clean up, it would not be surprising if a few puppets took advantage of the chaos and escaped and hid in the palace. They were picked up by Xiao Zheng, probably because Xiao Zheng secretly copied Wu Laodang's whistle.
And the person who silenced Xiao Zheng tonight probably didn't realize there were two puppets in the yard. It's a pity that Xiao Zheng didn't learn how to control them with a whistle.
【I am Xiaowan, I am following Xiaochu.】
[Xiao Chu? The one in the cell next door. He entered the cell later than us.]
When she heard this, she thought, hey, are these two puppets stronger than Feng Xiaochu? But looking at them, they looked much clumsier than the Feng Xiaochu she first met.
——Sure enough, it was because he stole six of her green beads, right?
She cursed in her mind. Because they had a common friend, Feng Xiaochu, the puppets became obviously enthusiastic.
The female puppet was very friendly, and she sat on the corpse and squeezed mud with her. Cao Xiwan felt proud that she was very popular, and it was the same among the puppets.
The male puppet looked at it and pinched the blood vessels in Xiao Zheng's wrist with one hand. Blood flowed out and the mud was wet.
He looked at Cao Xiwan with gratitude.
Without blinking, Cao Xiwan took the blood and put it on the mud, praising: "You are really good."
She thought about it and invited: [I'm going to find Xiao Ming. Can we go play together?]
【Is it far?】
【Not far】
The puppets all nodded.
She smiled, stood up, and gave the ball of blood and clay to the male puppet. She cunningly discovered that among the two puppets, the male puppet clearly had the final say: "My name is Xiaowan, what about you?"
【I am Xiaowu, she is Xiaowen】
Xiao Wu puppet took the gift and looked very excited. There was actually a pocket on his waist, and he put the clay ball in it.
Cao Xiwan glanced at it. It should be his toy bag. She saw small stones, small plates, and the body of a bird inside.
The puppet is so weird.
——Is he like this among all puppet masters? She looked at Xiaowen, no, Xiaowen was very quiet, and there was no toy bag around his waist.
But that's nothing. She, Cao Xiwan, can make friends with anyone. A perverted puppet hiding a bird's body is nothing.
She just speculated that Xiao Wu might be very strong.
She thought, Xiao Wu and Xiao Wen, their names sounded like brothers and sisters.
She lowered her head and looked at Eunuch Zheng's body. Perhaps because the body was bleeding, his eyes were closed. But the blood quickly clotted and stopped flowing.
Cao Xiwan speculated that Xiao Wu and Xiao Wen were accidentally picked up by Eunuch Zheng, or do they have something to do with Eunuch Zheng?
But he has been silent forever.
The moon and clouds alternate with each other, illuminating Chen Qianhu's house in Jinling neighborhood.
Cao Xiwan learned that Chen Ming and his wife lived alone in a courtyard, and she knew the house and the road well.
When Chen Ming was woken up in the middle of the night, he thought he had heard wrongly.
"Xiao Ming——Xiao Ming——"
He felt that it couldn't be Cao Xiwan. After he got married, this guy changed his rules and no longer squatted on his bedside to scare him.
But Mrs. Yang heard Cao Xiwan's voice coming from the window and pushed her husband awake.
Because when they got married, Chen Ming's female colleague, Mrs. Cao, gave her generous gifts and spoke gently and politely. When Mrs. Yang came to her senses a few days later, she understood that Mrs. Cao had praised her to the heavens in a roundabout way.
Later, this interesting Madam Cao never came to visit her. I heard that she recently entered the palace and became a female official.
Madam Yang was also a female official in the palace. She was a member of the distant branch of the Yang family who first served as Princess Gonghui, and she did not have a deep relationship with the clan. She felt that Madam Cao was a very measured person, and her sudden visit tonight might be for official business of the Yamen.
She could endure it and let Chen Ming and Lady Cao tell her that they couldn't do this next time. She still felt it was inappropriate for a man and a woman to talk to each other about business in the middle of the night.
But Madam Yang soon changed her mind.
Chen Ming lit the lamp, put on his coat, and opened the window: "Xiaowan——"
Before he finished speaking, he saw three heads reaching over. All of them had their faces covered, only six eyes like flames were exposed, and they all looked at him.
He was so frightened that he screamed: "Ghost——! There is a ghost——!" He smashed the lamp in his hand at the top of his head.
The entire Chen family was frightened awake by his screams.