Chang'an is good

Chapter 22

Chang Suining shook his head directly: "I don't remember at all."

After all, she's out of her mind, which makes sense.

"Who was the envoy who accompanied Suining out that day?" Chang Kuo asked with a frown.

Chang Suian: "It's Xi'er!"

Chang Suining: "Are you still alive?"

Chang Suian was taken aback by her question, and then nodded quickly: "It's alive! Since the night of Shangyuan Festival, I have detained people in the room for questioning... Uncle Bai, bring him here!"

Soon, a female envoy who was about the same age as Chang Suining was brought over. Her eyes were red and swollen like rotten peaches, and her dress was not clean. It looked like she hadn't washed it for at least three or five days, and she was very embarrassed. Xiao Suo——

As soon as she entered the hall, a pair of eyes that were so red and swollen that they couldn't open her eyes immediately found Chang Suining, and she knelt towards Chang Suining, crying: "Girl...you are fine! It's really great Already!"

Should I say it or not, Chang Suining was slightly moved.

So far, this is the first person who recognized her at a glance.

"...Xi'er keeps this breath, just waiting for the girl to come back!" Xi'er looked up at Chang Suining, showing a smile of "dead without regrets and no worries": "Since seeing the girl, Xi'er Peace of mind!"

As he said that, he bit his lip, turned around abruptly, and bumped his head against the corner of the table beside him.

Chang Suining: "?"

As expected of a family ruled by military law, is it true that everyone in the Chang family, from top to bottom, is so brave to take responsibility and die eagerly?

It's too good.

She quickly grabbed Xi'er's arm, "Don't worry, I still have some questions to ask you."

Xi'er sobbed, nodded in confusion, temporarily postponed her suicide plan: "Girl, ask."

"You first tell me what happened before and after my accident on the night of Shangyuan Festival."

While Chang Suining was speaking, Chang Suian moved a wide chair behind her, and whispered, "Ning Ning, sit down and ask."

Chang Kuo glanced at his son with satisfaction, and sat down too.

Of course, Chang Suian was standing.

Xi'er breathed out: "...On the night of Shangyuan Festival, the servant girl went out with the girl to enjoy the lanterns. The servant girl suggested that the girl should guess lantern riddles, but the girl said she didn't want to go to a crowded place, so she took the maidservant across the Moon Bridge. Went to the other side of the Lantern Festival, and asked the servant girl to wait under the bridge, saying that she wanted to go for a walk by the river alone. Seeing that the girl was getting farther and farther away, she was about to disappear. The servant girl was really worried, so she chased after her, but who knew It's still too late, when the servant girl chases after the clump of reeds, the girl will not be found!"

No wonder she speaks too proficiently, after all, she has told Bai Guanshi and Chang Suian countless times these days.

Chang Suining frowned slightly after hearing this: "...Did I ever reveal the idea of ​​committing suicide?"

Xi'er was stunned for a moment, then shook her head: "Although the girl is a bit sentimental, she has nothing worth mentioning recently... and the girl is always afraid of pain..."

But doesn't the girl herself know better than she does?

But he continued: "The servant girl searched by the river for a long time but could not find the girl, so she hurriedly asked the coachman to go back to the mansion and told the gentleman about it, and the gentleman borrowed the valuables and went to the river, and hired a nearby lady The boatman fished in the river all night, but found nothing."

Chang Suining thought about it—at that time, Ah Li had probably been swept away by the current and hit the kidnapper's hand.

Was it really a simple slip and fall into the water?
Chang Suining didn't want to make a conclusion easily: "Before I went out, did I say anything? What did I bring? Or... Do I have an appointment with someone, who is I going to see?"

Faced with Shang Xi'er's increasingly confused expression, Chang Suining said: "I can't remember many things for the time being. The doctor said that he will need to rest for half a month before he can recover slowly. Now you just answer yes."

Xi'er's previous words are all true—if something happened to Ah Li before, and the other party can still use his fabricated rhetoric to deceive Chang Suian and Bai Guanshi, then "A Li" is back now, yes Convenience is determined not to confront her face to face.

In other words, at least up to now, the envoy is telling the truth.

And her words of "recovering slowly after half a month of recuperation" are also bluffing.

Xi'er was startled when she heard the words, but then there was guilt and self-hate in her eyes: "The girl has suffered... It's all because Xi'er didn't guard the girl well, so the girl suffered like this..."

"Follow orders, not for fault." Chang Suining interrupted her self-blaming words: "It's important to answer first, you should think about it carefully."

"Yes..." Xi'er contemplated for a moment, and said: "The girl has never said anything worthy of attention... Girls usually don't like to socialize with people, and they don't have any good friends..."

Chang Suining: "Is that a good young gentleman?"

Chang Kuo: "?"

Chang Suian: "?"

Xi'er opened her mouth: "Xiao Langjun, neither... nor..."

As she said that, she suddenly thought of something: "But there is a gentleman who is not too young..."

Chang Sui'an suddenly frowned: "Don't you mean that Zhou Ding?"

Xi'er nodded hurriedly.

Seeing Chang Suian's disgusted face, Chang Suining couldn't help asking: "Who is Zhou Ding?"

It was also the first time Chang Kuo had heard of this name.

"That's a fake..." Chang Sui'an was about to scold him, but thinking of his sister's admiration and admiration for this person in the past, he held back and said euphemistically: "It's just relying on drinking a few pots of ink, taking a few This sour poem is just a poor scholar trying to trick my sister!"

Chang Suining was not in a hurry to answer his words, he just asked Xi'er: "Since I seldom get in touch with people, he can be regarded as one of the people who do, so on the night of the Lantern Festival, will I be going to meet this person?"

Xi'er shook her head: "But the girl didn't mention it to the maid that day, so she probably never had an appointment with this man..."

"Or... I knew my elder brother didn't approve of my contact with him, so I didn't tell anyone, and I went to the river alone under the pretext, but in fact it was to meet him?" Chang Suining guessed: "The lantern festival is about people. Let's join in the fun, I went, but I said I don't like crowded places, so I went to a remote place alone, if there is no other reason, isn't it contradictory?"

Xi'er hesitated to speak.

Chang Suian scratched his head, and said in a low voice, "Ningning... is not contradictory, after all, you have always been like this."

It is a common occurrence to say that you want to be alone on your front feet, and then cry on your back feet and say that you are extremely lonely alone in the world.

Or because she lost her biological parents since she was a child, her sister's temperament has always been fragile and changeable.

Or because he needs to express his emotions, he is obsessed with poetry and poetry on weekdays, but he is not born with that kind of material as an elder brother. Although his sister doesn't say it clearly, he feels that his words and deeds are rude and reckless, and gradually he dare not approach her. For fear of frightening her and annoying her.

All in all, my sister likes talented people--that's exactly what happened that week.

Chang Sui Ning was silent for a moment, then asked again: "How did I get to know this person?"

Although Ah Li's falling into the water may not be related to this person, since this person is well-known in Ah Li's relatively closed life, it is worth paying more attention to.

"It was half a year ago, at a poetry meeting..." Xi'er roughly explained what happened.

Since they met at the poetry meeting, the girl has often exchanged letters with this person, and the girl has secretly helped this person many times——

"...I actually gave him money back?" Chang Suining just felt incredible.

Xi'er: "Mr. Zhou often sighed in front of the girl that his family was poor. Although he was famous as a scholar and talented in learning, the road to the imperial examination was long and difficult..."

"So, I gave birth to the idea of ​​supporting him to study for the imperial examination?" Chang Suining frowned: "...he promised to come and propose marriage to me when he was in high school?"

"No, no, no!" Xi'er quickly waved her hand in denial.

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