Crazy criticizes the regent for reading my mind and his character collapses

Chapter 72 She Didn't Tell the Truth
Nan Xi stood up and walked over, bent down and lifted Caiying's chin, looked into her eyes, and asked slowly: "Your eldest lady is dead, are you sad?"

"S-sad." Caiying didn't know why, but she suddenly felt guilty, as if everything she was thinking was being seen through by the girl in front of her, and she didn't dare to look directly at her.

Nan Xi didn't let go, just kept this posture and continued to ask: "I heard that you almost became your ex-uncle's concubine in Qiongzhou, but it was Guan Wanqing who blocked it. After returning to Beijing, he quickly married you to a gambler. Even so, you are still sad when she dies?"

"I..." The resentment in Caiying's eyes could hardly be concealed.

But it's just resentment, not hatred.

"My slave's life belongs to the eldest lady. If the eldest lady wants me to live, I will live. If the eldest lady wants me to die, I will die. If I am not reincarnated into a good family, I will serve people's lives like this in my life. If the eldest lady is dead, I can only change my master and continue to stay in the Guan Mansion, but I can no longer be a big girl and it is even harder to get ahead, how can I not be sad?"

What she said was very realistic, and it didn't sound like a lie.

Nan Xi let go of her and asked again: "Has Guan Wanqing ever hit you?"

Caiying no longer concealed anything, nodded, and said, "It's because of my clumsiness that I often make the eldest lady angry. She deserves to punish me."

Nan Xi finally noticed that Caiying was a bit servile.

Xu Shi was severely suppressed on weekdays, and even though Guan Wanqing was dead, he still didn't dare to show any resistance.

But she still felt something was wrong.

"Did you see or hear anything when you were knocked unconscious?" Nan Xi asked again.

Caiying shook her head repeatedly: "No."

Seeing that he couldn't ask any more questions, Nan Xi let Caiying go.

After she left, Shaoyao couldn't help but say: "Actually, she is quite pitiful."

Nan Xi looked at Caiying's leaving back with calm eyes, "She didn't tell the truth."

Tang Jingjing nodded: "She must be hiding something about this case. Let's wait until we meet Jiang Zhicheng first."

When Jiang Zhicheng was brought here, it was already approaching the application time.

"Student, please meet me, sir." Jiang Zhicheng bowed and cupped his hands.

He is a scholar, and according to Dongyue's rules, he is exempted from kneeling.

Nan Xi and Tang Qingqing both looked at him with sizing and scrutinizing eyes.

Jiang Zhicheng seemed to be very timid. When no one spoke for a long time, he became even more nervous. He stood there timidly, with his head lowered and his fingers holding the hem of his clothes.

Tang Jingjing glanced up and down and asked in a deep voice: "Jiang Zhicheng, since you are a candidate, why are you still outside the Gongyuan at this time?"

Jiang Zhicheng's facial features were delicate, but his behavior was as rigid as a scholar's. He bowed his hands to Tang Qingqing with a slight restraint: "Sir, it's just because students were drinking with others on the eve of the exam, so I got up a little late the next day and missed the opportunity." It’s time for Gongyuan to close, so that’s why…”

Nan Xi and Tang Jingjun were a little surprised. They didn't expect that someone would miss the scientific examination because of oversleeping.

"On the day the exam started, did you meet anyone outside Gongyuan?" Nan Xi asked.

Jiang Zhicheng glanced at her, his eyes seemed to pause on the birthmark on her face, and then said: "I met my eldest sister-in-law, but she had already divorced my brother a few days ago."

"Did you have any quarrel?"

"...Yes." Jiang Zhicheng hesitated for a moment and did not deny it.

Nan Xi continued to ask: "Why are you making noise?"

Jiang Zhicheng described what happened that day.

It turned out that after he found out that he missed the exam start time, he still went to Gongyuan and tried every means to get in, but was driven away by the guards at the door. This scene happened to be seen by Guan Wanqing.

Guan Wanqing pointed at his nose and scolded him, scolding him for being useless, saying that he could even miss the scientific examination, saying that even if he got in, he would not pass, so why waste time, and asked him why he didn't die, as living is just a waste of food.

His expression was very calm during the explanation, as if he was accustomed to these insulting words. "Aren't you angry when she scolds you like that?" Nan Xi was puzzled.

No one would be able to bear being insulted like this in the street.

Jiang Zhicheng said: "My eldest sister-in-law is my mother. Even if she reconciles with her brother, she is still my sister-in-law."

"What happened after that? She left after the quarrel?"

"Well, actually, the eldest sister-in-law might just be in a bad mood. She scolded me and let it out, and then it was nothing."

Tang Qingqing asked him some more questions and let him leave.

Shaoyao couldn't hold back his words. He curled his lips and said, "He's too cowardly. He didn't even react when he was scolded like that. If it was me, I would have slapped him in the face."

Nan Xi waved to Shaoyao, "Go follow Jiang Zhicheng and see what he usually does. Is there anything unusual?"

Shaoyao asked curiously: "Is the girl suspicious of this nerd? No way, seeing how he looks and doesn't dare to speak back even when scolded, how could he dare to kill someone?"

Han Li glared at her angrily: "Just go and do what the girl tells you to do. Why are there so many problems?"

Shaoyao didn't feel angry either, so she stuck out her tongue and trotted away.

Hanlian looked towards the south and said, "Miss, I will apologize to you on behalf of Shaoyao."

There is no excuse, just an admission of error. This is the rule of the Regent's Palace.

Wrong is wrong, no reason is needed.

Nan Xi chuckled lightly, "I think it's good that she is like this. She dares to speak and do things, and it gives me a lot of inspiration. Don't be too constrained by her."

……

On the night after the scientific examination, Lan Jue returned to Beijing.

"Master, have you really taken out the poison?" As soon as he came back, he heard Xia Rui talk about what happened in the past two days, and hurriedly came to Li Qingmo's bedroom.

Nan Xi was sitting by the bed feeding Li Qingmo.

Because he was not allowed to get out of bed, she fed him this way for dinner for the past two days.

Li Qingmo experienced the joy of lying in bed for the first time, and even felt that the food for the past two days was particularly delicious.

"Well, I took it out." Nan Xi nodded and asked Lan Jue seriously: "Do you want to see it?"

As she spoke, she put the dishes aside, took out a small glass bottle from her sleeve and handed it over.

The Gu insect seemed to be fatter than before, and its slow squirming proved that it was still alive.

Lan Jue felt a little disgusted and couldn't help but ask: "Miss Nan, what do you do with this?"

Nan Xi took the bottle back and threw it into the space using his sleeves as a cover.

"Research, it doesn't take much effort to raise it anyway. When I see the person who bewitched the master to make him suffer, I will feed him the bugs directly and let him have a good taste of it."

Li Qingmo was slightly startled. He had never thought that Nan Xi kept the Gu worms for this reason.

"Master, do you still want to eat?" Nan Xi asked.

Li Qingmo shook his head. He was not very hungry to begin with. He just wanted to pester this girl and talk to her more.

The bowls and chopsticks were taken away by the servants, and Li Qingmo looked at Lan Jue. The tenderness that would kill someone without paying for their lives disappeared instantly, leaving only a look of condensation on his face.

Question: "What have you found?"

(End of this chapter)