boudoir

Chapter 268 The key person
Liuli was aroused by this sudden discovery, such a guess is reasonable, but what about his deeds?
After a long circle, I finally came back to this problem.In her study that day, he said that these are not in his hands, is this true or a lie?If it is true, who will it be in?
She suddenly felt that it was really necessary for someone who understood to tell her all this.She doesn't need the house title deeds, what she needs is to know their whereabouts, and judge the sincerity of his words from it, and then decide how she wants to continue with him!
But, can she ask Qi Yunhao directly?Ling Lan's face changed when she heard about Mrs. Ye, it can be seen that people rarely mention it in front of him on weekdays.She took the liberty to ask him, whether he said it or not is the next thing, so it's really okay to directly ask these things that seem to have nothing to do with her?

"Grandma, what are you thinking?"

Rui'er waited beside her for half a day, seeing her in a trance, she couldn't help asking.

She propped her forehead and asked: "Is there really no one in the mansion who has seen Mrs. Ye?"

Rui'er thought for a while and said: "If grandma is really troubled by this problem, why don't you go to Lao Qi's mansion to have a look?"

"Old Qifu?" Liuli raised her head.

Rui'er nodded: "Old Qi Mansion is naturally the place where Dingbei Prince's Mansion lived before it moved here. It is the ancestral house of Qi Mansion, and the ancestral hall is also set up there, and there are still some people guarding it there."

Liuli immediately became enlightened, suddenly enlightened!Ruier reminded you rightly, the old praying mansion is the praying mansion she stayed with He Yuhua in her previous life, remember there are a lot of old people in the mansion there, none of those people appear in the mansion now, they must stay there .And even if the insiders from back then are gone, the people guarding the ancestral hall are all old people, so they will definitely know!
But she is now pretending to be sick, and she has only been lying in bed for half a month, but it is not so easy to get hurt and go out.

Ruier said: "Let Jugeng go."

Liuli thought for a while, then shook her head and said, "No, it's too eye-catching for Jugeng'er to go. Let Jigeng'er take some time to go to the village, and let Lai Wu ask. No matter what you find out about Mrs. Ye, come and tell me. Then tell him Can't reveal me."

Ruier nodded: "I'll go and tell him right now."

Ruier arranges things here for Ji Jiaoer and Lai Wu.In fact, she didn't know what she could find out. After all, it was a long time ago, and it was in the mouths of servants. Even if it was handed down, it would probably be out of taste.

But it's better than not asking about it, and not knowing the history of Qi's family, she will always look like an outsider in front of Qi Yunhao.If she doesn't understand his experience, she won't understand his heart—especially after knowing that their father and son have had so many years of hatred from Concubine Qi, she wants to know what he has experienced in these years and why To treat my father and stepmother like this.Of course, what I want to know more is why he suddenly said "a child without a mother is the most unfortunate".

In the past two days, she got out of bed and occasionally walked around in the corridor. At least half a month later, the imperial doctor also visited the mansion from time to time, and she was still the one who collected her money in Zhongcui Palace.Let him go back and forth so many times, and he still has to show some effect, otherwise how can he explain it to the queen?

The weather has also turned cooler these days when she is pretending to be sick, and she can see a white layer of frost under the locust tree in the morning.

According to Rui'er, this season is the busy season of autumn harvest, and Lai Wu should be busy letting farmers harvest crops, and busy sowing next year's vegetable seeds in the fields.There should be no time to go to the old prayer mansion.

She wrapped her cloak and breathed out against her opponent under the locust tree, Rui'er hurried over: "Grandma! I have a letter from you!"

Liuli thought it was Mr. Xu. Since Mr. Xu sent a letter saying that someone went to find something in Grandpa's house, she also replied to a letter, but she never heard from him again.

Take it over and take a look, it's actually Ji Xiaoquan!

Ji Xiaoquan has been approaching for nearly two months, and finally there is news!
She opened the letter tremblingly, was about to read it, then closed it and asked Ruier: "Is he okay?" Since he had a letter for her, he must have a letter for Ruier too.Rui'er has worried so much about his trip, how could she ignore her feelings at all?
Rui'er's eyes were moist, she nodded and said with a smile: "Okay! He said it's good! Grandma, read the letter!"

Only then did Liuli look down again, it turned out that in the past two months he had pretended to be a businessman in the south, and rented a house to live in the south of the city, and had already grasped important clues, but there was still no evidence that He Cunli conspired with the Nie brothers to steal money Found, because all knowledgeable people and evidence have been taken away.The meaning of his letter is to ask whether to continue to investigate or return to the government?
After all, it was still a step late.Liuli closed the letter, frowning.

"How did he send this letter in?"

"A little beggar handed it in at the door." Rui'er said.

Liuli nodded, thought for a while, went into the study and wrote a few lines with her own handwriting, put it in an envelope and handed it to her, "See if that little beggar is still there, give him some money to take back."

Ruier quickly wiped her eyes and went out.

It's useless to investigate further, why not ask him what clues he got.

The south of the city is only a dozen miles away, and he will be back tomorrow if he receives the letter today at the latest.

The next day when Liuli got up early, Rui'er came in and opened the window, she couldn't hide her joy from the corners of her eyes, and said, "Ji Xiaoquan came back last night, and asked grandma when she would be free to see her."

She is not on duty at night, so she lives in the small house given to them by Liuli, which is on Camel Street outside the east wall. Since Ji Xiaoquan came back last night, he naturally returned home.Liuli glanced at her, raised her lips and said, "Let him come after breakfast." Then he said, "I let him go out for so long, do you blame me?"

Rui'er blushed, and said: "How can it be? A slave doesn't work for the master, so why should he occupy this position?"

Liuli smiled and asked her to dress herself.

After breakfast, Ji Xiaoquan came with Ruier.I haven't seen her for two months, and she's darkened and thinner, but her eyes are still bright.Seeing Ye Tong and Liu Wei at the door, he naturally showed some surprise, but when Ruier whispered to him, he nodded in understanding.

Liuli admired him to sit, and then asked Yuegui to serve him tea.

Ji Xiaoquan thanked him, sat down and got straight to the point.

"The little ones have gone through all the places that grandma explained on the paper. Just like what I told grandma in the letter yesterday, basically no conclusive evidence was found. But after searching all the way, I also found one thing. thing."

"What's the matter?" Liuli was waiting for this.

"It's about the people who collected the evidence." Ji Xiaoquan paused, and said, "All the evidence was searched by that man and woman, and during the search, I found that these two people mentioned it several times. He Mansion. According to them, at that time they spoke as if they were very familiar with He Mansion, especially the eldest house of He Mansion. So I speculate that these two people may be acquaintances of Mr. He!"

"He Yuli's acquaintance?" Liuli frowned suddenly, his acquaintances were collecting these evidences, so what was his intention?Is it collected to prevent it from being obtained by others, or to use it as a cover against him, or like her, to prove him? "Is there anything else?"

Ji Xiaoquan thought for a while, and said: "Grandma mentioned the name of the Eldest Master, which made the younger one think about it again. They all said that every time the woman asked about the evidence about the Elder Master He's use of power for personal gain, she would directly say the Elder Master He's. A taboo name, not an honorific title."

For a woman to directly mention the name of the third-rank official outside the taboo, besides being dissatisfied with him, what else is possible?Therefore, Liuli immediately ruled out the possibility that the couple collected evidence to destroy it for him.Since he is dissatisfied with He Yuli and is very familiar with He Fu, who could it be?

Liuli picked the teacup with her fingers, and her eyes were entangled with the prints on the cup.There are quite a few people in this world who meet these two conditions, at least besides herself, there are Yu Shi, He Pusong and Aunt Su.

Mrs. Yu is still locked up in the Buddhist Hall of He Mansion and has not seen the light of day, but she herself is also involved in this, so it should not be her.As for He Pusong, it is possible that Qi would not have died if He Cunli and the Ruan family hadn't been pressing for the first time.

As for Aunt Su, let alone the hatred for He Yuli, He Yuli gave Yu Shi the position of first wife regardless of affection, and she became a concubine but was killed by Yu Shi's three children. She released it and used Aunt Chen to embarrass her. She had enough reasons to do so, and with her means, she was definitely able to arrange such a big situation.

So will it be He Pusong or Aunt Su? !
Liuli gripped the edge of the table tightly, the truth was about to come out, but it was a pity that there was no way to do it!It would be fine if it was Aunt Su, but if it was He Pusong—he and He Yuli were blood brothers, and Mrs. He was still alive, the possibility of using evidence to pinpoint him was high, and the possibility of presenting evidence to report was almost zero.And Liuli's purpose is to obtain these evidences, if it is really in his hands, it will be difficult to spit it out.

On Aunt Su's side, should she just go back and ask her?If it was in the hands of Aunt Su, she would definitely give it to herself.But since he smashed He Cunli's yard, and left her behind and no longer recognized him as his father, what's the matter with her going back?That became trespassing in his mouth.Of course, she can also go back desperately, can He Cunli let her in?If you go with the soldiers in the name of Qi Yunhao—yes, there are two of them outside the door, and they are enough to break into He's house.However, before the matter was confirmed, she didn't want to reveal the news prematurely, even if it was Qi Yunhao's person.

Besides, even if he forced his way in, wouldn't He Cunli let people look at Aunt Su?Even if Aunt Su really held his evidence at that time, she would never be able to bring it out.

How to do?
She braced her forehead and felt a headache.

(End of this chapter)