The wind and snow hit her. She looked at the snow on the ground, and her heart felt cold and numb along with the heavy snow in the sky.
It wasn't until the early morning light that the door at the back was finally opened gently from the inside.
Mr. Zhuge, who was wearing a thin shirt, had no idea that his daughter was standing here. He was stunned for a while, then walked out of the house uncomfortably and quietly closed the door.
The girl was too cold and turned around slowly.
The faint red marks on her mother's neck and the lingering manly smell on her body made her almost numb eyes gradually turn red.
"Is it... Dou Lixin?" Chen Yunqi asked.
Zhuge gradually regained his composure and walked towards the side room on the other side.
"Mother!" Chen Yunqi followed and whispered, "It was he who forced dad to fake his death! Why do you still come here? Do you have to do what he wants every time?"
Zhuge didn't say a word. After entering the room, he took off all the hairpins on his head and placed them in front of the dressing table.
As soon as Chen Yongming "died", with the help of Bai Qingyuan, Nie Huimo did not kill Chen Yongming's wife and daughter.
This courtyard was the old property of Baiqingyuan. After the Chen family's property was sealed off, the mother and daughter still had two other places to go. Apart from the old house provided by the Zhuge tribe, the other one was here.
This is also the place where Dou Lixin often asks Zhuge to "serve" him.
To be able to give birth to a daughter as beautiful as Chen Yunqi, Zhuge is naturally very beautiful. She is nearly forty years old, but makes people think she is only in her early thirties.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door outside the yard, the sound was very urgent.
Zhuge frowned, put down the comb he had just picked up, stood up and walked away.
Chen Yunqi wanted to follow, but Zhuge stopped her: "Don't come out."
The person who came to call Dou Lixin was his personal guard.
Zhuge just opened the door, and the guards strode towards the main room.
"Captain!" Guards shouted at the door, "Captain!"
Dou Lixin slept deeply. After a whole night of indulgence, the man felt very sleepy.
After a while, Dou Lixin finally came out with his tired body: "What's the matter?"
"Deputy Supervisor Zhao was investigated and was taken to Xingzhong Academy an hour ago!"
"Fuck!" Dou Lixin yelled, "Is this fucking over yet?"
"...Captain, Ji Changshi came to ask what we should do." Konoe said with difficulty.
Even though Nie Huimo is no longer in Congxin, the strict investigation and death order he issued still shakes the entire Youzhou officialdom.
The three state officials who committed suicide by jumping into Jinyi Lake destroyed all the evidence before their death, hoping to exchange their deaths for the safety of their homes.
But Nie Huimo did not let these people go, and the families of these three state officials were all raided.
The nouveau riche in the officialdom are the least able to withstand intimidation, especially if the clan is implicated. People in the clan will not let them go at first.
In the past few months, more and more people have surrendered themselves. They pulled out the carrots and brought them out of the mud. One layer of relationship after another. Who would have thought that at the beginning, they just strangled Huang Xinyu, a Jingyun Pavilion, and they would soon kill Master He Yanpo.
All the hidden lines laid out in Youzhou were implicated.
Dou Lixin and Ji Changshi are different from officials like Youzhou. The blood flowing in their bodies is not the blood of Central Plains people.
If this continues, two years of layout and planning, as well as the money spent, will all be wasted.
Dou Lixin suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhuge who was still standing in the courtyard.
Zhuge tried his best to reduce his presence, but suddenly met Dou Lixin's eyes. Her face turned pale and she was really startled.
"Where is your daughter?" Dou Lixin asked.
Chen Yunqi, who was standing behind the door in the house, was stunned for a moment and clenched his fingers involuntarily.
"She has been sick all the time, and her health becomes worse in winter." Zhuge said with difficulty.
"Nie Huimo is so kind to her," Dou Lixin said coldly, "Why should I want you, an old woman, instead of someone as fresh and tender as your daughter? I've already told you the reason!"
Zhuge's whole heart was trembling, and he lowered his head slightly: "Master, my daughter is really seriously ill."
"Wouldn't it be better to be sick? She is so beautiful that she feels pity for her? I want to see her in the afternoon. You go back and make arrangements!"
Zhuge bit his lip, but did not dare to disobey in front of him, so he pretended to respond first: "Yes."
Dou Lixin left with his personal guards, and Zhuge returned to the side room.
When I entered the house, I saw my daughter slumped on the ground with a pale face.
Zhuge's tears fell and he leaned over to help her up.
His legs were so weak that Chen Yunqi couldn't stand up at all.
"Your useless father left us orphans and widows in this purgatory. In the end, you will only blame me." Zhuge said.
"It would be better to die." Chen Yunqi cried.
"You are still young. You can't even say death. You have never lived this great life!" Zhuge slapped her hand.
"Then what should mother do if she comes to see me in the afternoon?"
"He doesn't want to find you just once or twice. He bites the bullet and continues to hold on. What else can he do?"
Chen Yunqi lowered his head, tears flowing more and more fiercely, but suddenly he remembered a person's name.
"Miss Ah Li..." Chen Yunqi said, "Mom, do you still remember that girl Ah Li?"
Zhuge raised his eyebrows and nodded: "Yes."
"It was she who begged for our lives in front of General Nie," Chen Yunqi said happily, "Mother, she is here again. I bumped into her last night, and she was following the letter!"
"Will she still help us?"
"Yes, we will definitely meet. Dou Lixin is from He Yanpo, and Yanpo's wife is Tao Lan. Miss Ali is an orphan from Dingguo Palace. She and Tao Lan are mortal enemies. She will definitely help us.
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Zhuge was suspicious and looked at her.
"Mom, I'm going to find Aunt Bai right now. Mother, please go back to your uncle's house to rest first!" With that said, Chen Yunqi wiped away her tears and ran outside.
At the same moment, Xia Zhaoyi and Shen Lie stopped at the gate of Tai Mansion.
The two of them each held an umbrella, and the snow fell from the sky one after another. Xia Zhaoyi's dress was a brand-new pale white satin dress embroidered with gold and silver threads sent by the waiter this morning. She wore a slender white gauze gathered outside the skirt, and the snowflakes fell.
On it, it becomes the most fitting ornament for heaven and earth.
Shen Lie, on the other hand, was dressed in crescent white brocade clothes, with a light gold belt around his waist. His back was extremely straight, with broad shoulders, a thin waist and long legs. Standing next to Xia Zhaoyi, he was a full head taller.
The color matching of the two sets of clothes came from the careful thinking of Zhai Jinsheng and Ji Xiahe, as well as their overnight running between Congxin shops.
"Is this here?" Shen Lie asked.
The houses in this area are all the same, and with the falling snow, they are hard to recognize.
Xia Zhaoyi nodded and went to knock on the door.
Soon a maid opened the door and saw Xia Zhaoyi outside. The maid was stunned for a moment and said in surprise: "Miss Ali?"
The pretty girl, who had previously been dressed in androgynous clothes, now has a more outstanding temperament under her gorgeous clothes. With a pretty and cold face, she stands in the snow holding an umbrella, and looks like she has stepped out of a painting of a snow scene in a plum garden.
The servant woman's eyes involuntarily moved to the side and fell on the young man's handsome and smooth face. She subconsciously said: "So handsome."
Shen Lie looked calm and looked at her calmly.
The maid suddenly felt her scalp numb, so she slapped herself in the mouth and looked at Xia Zhaoyi: "Miss Ah Li, are you here to see our master? The master...is not at home."
"Where has he gone?" Xia Zhaoyi asked.
"Since my wife asked the girl to help Chen Xianwei, I have been staying in the school. Every time I go to see him, I am drawing. I just sent him some winter clothes yesterday."
Xia Zhaoyi nodded. It seemed that Bai Qingyuan asked her to go to Nie Huimo to plead for the Chen family's mother and daughter, which indeed touched on Tai Zicang's principle issues.
"It's okay," Xia Zhaoyi smiled, "I'm not here to see Mr. Tai Zicang, I'm here to see your wife."
"Looking for the madam?" The servant girl nodded, but felt that it was not good to let the person in directly, so she said, "Well, Miss Ali, please wait a moment, I will ask my madam."
"Okay." Xia Zhaoyi nodded.
The maid smiled apologetically and closed the door gently.
Shen Lie's calm brows were filled with displeasure, and he looked at Xia Zhaoyi's fingers that were slightly red from the cold. He resisted the urge to pick her up and hold her in his hands, and said in a deep voice, "This is how this lady treats guests. "
Xia Zhaoyi smiled and looked at him: "Are you cold?"
"It's not cold." When Shen Lie said this, he looked at Xia Zhaoyi's fingers again.
