He has a cold, deep voice and does things in a business-like manner without a trace of emotion.
He rested one hand on the saber, half-squinted his red phoenix eyes, and pressed all the air with a threatening aura.
Miao Qi was frightened by Pei Xingyuan's words.
She staggered.
Gong'e beside her saw this and was about to raise her hand to search him again.
But there was still a clear slap, and Miao Qi looked sharply at the soft persimmon beside him.
"How does a low-ranking servant have the right to touch me! If we want to investigate, then at least a third-grade female officer must touch me!"
She didn't dare to stare at Pei Xingyuan, so she could only scold the harem beside her for letting others bully her.
This was actually said to Pei Xingyuan.
The man's eyes were cold. He raised his eyelids and his gaze without any warmth fell on Miao Qi, looking him up and down.
Then he gritted his teeth and sneered: "Third-grade female officer?"
Mi Xiayao rarely saw Pei Xingyuan in such a state. She didn't even realize how long her eyes had been on Pei Xingyuan.
"I only know that Dali Temple has been ordered by His Majesty to thoroughly investigate the outing banquet case, but I have not told you that it can also deploy a third-grade female official to serve Miss Miao."
He bitten the word "serve", which was equivalent to slapping Miao Qi in front of her.
If a girl is arrogant and doesn't want others to touch her and no one talks about her, then she is self-loving and self-preserving.
If someone says it, it is just artificial in the eyes of others.
When Mi Xiayao heard this, she couldn't help but frown.
Strictly speaking, Miao Qi actually did nothing wrong. As a daughter of a noble family, it was indeed the fault of her tutor to not let strangers touch her.
She wanted to say something, but then she thought about it, Miao Qi was nothing to be pitied for.
In the end, he simply turned his head aside and kept his eyes quiet.
Miao Qi also didn't expect that Pei Xingyuan would embarrass her in public. She bit her lower lip immediately, with tears in her eyes.
Some people couldn't bear to see this anxious scene and tried to be the peacemakers.
"I have never had anything to do with the Miao family. If Mr. Pei were not like this, I would ask my personal maid to search for Miss Miao and prove her innocence."
When Pei Xingyuan heard this, his cold eyes fell on that person.
"What evidence you bring out has nothing to do with her."
"……I!"
In the middle of this joke, some of Miao Qi's sworn enemies already faintly laughed.
Miao Qi heard this and bit her lower lip, hating the Pei Xingyuan in front of her who was openly embarrassing her.
"Search!"
She opened her sleeves and raised her chin stubbornly.
If she doesn't deal with this embarrassment now, it will be overturned by others, but her arrogant temperament in the eyes of those people today will be even more difficult to deal with.
Gong E, who was slapped, glanced at Pei Xingyuan timidly.
Impatientness already appeared in the latter's eyes. Seeing this, Gong'e quickly searched Miao Qi's body.
Finally he shook his head.
Miao Qi stared at Pei Xingyuan fiercely for a long time. She gritted her teeth and said, "I will remember today's revenge, Pei Xingyuan!"
After that, she rolled up her sleeves, turned around and left.
Mi Xiayao looked back and met those deep red phoenix eyes.
Her heart skipped a beat.
This farce quickly turned over in the eyes of this group of people. The outing banquet case had not yet been solved, and they, a group of nobles, could only stay in the open camp and be carefully served by these palace people.
The food and wine were not treated too harshly, and they were not too uncomfortable.
When Mi Xiayao leaned against Zhu Xiuxiu and closed her eyes for a moment, she suddenly heard a commotion outside.
She woke up with a start.
Zhu Xiuxiu was the fastest in gossiping. She stretched her neck and looked at it for a long time before finally coming to a conclusion.
"The source has probably been found. Everyone in Dali Temple has evacuated."
Mi Xiayao pursed her lips and said nothing.
How to find the source depends on someone's mood.
After a while, Queen Xu dragged her sick body out of the camp, and the minister of Dali Temple lowered his head and reported: "The body in the stream is Mr. Xu He, who is responsible for the dam construction in Jinzhou."
When Queen Xu heard her birth name, her body swayed.
"After repeated inspections, I found that Mr. Xu He hanged himself. I also found the origin of the writings on the tent..."
The Minister of Dali Temple hesitated for a moment before speaking.
Queen Xu closed her eyes in pain. After hearing these words, she was unable to let him continue.
"It's the third wife of the Xu family."
Mi Xiayao stood on the outside, looking at the scene on the stage with indifferent eyes.
Xu He is the third son of the Xu family. I heard that this man is young and successful, otherwise he would not have been sent by the Xu family to manage the canals at such a young age.
Regardless of whether Xu He hanged himself is true or not, the injustice on the tent is an indisputable fact.
"Why, do you feel sorry for the deceased member of the Xu family?"
A deep voice suddenly appeared next to her.
You can tell who it is without even looking at it.
"There is no innocent person in the Xu family. I just sigh. There are obviously better ways to get it back, so why do we have to go to such an extreme? How many times can we have a do-over in life."
She curled her lips and sneered.
Pei Xingyuan looked sideways at her delicate facial features. In the flickering candlelight, her whole body seemed as cold as the dew in the morning.
Cold, lonely but fleeting.
"In the end, I still have to thank him."
"You..." From there I knew he was going to hang himself.
Mi Xiayao originally wanted to ask this question, but after thinking about it, she forgot about it. She didn't want to hear more about this kind of thing.
If you watch too much and listen too much, you will be full of disappointment in this world.
Dali Temple sent the results to the palace, and as expected, the emperor was very angry.
What injustice can force a minister to hang himself, and what dirty things in the court can oppress people.
The emperor was furious and called for a thorough investigation into the matter.
Once you open such an opening, everything will become easier to handle later on.
Queen Xu felt vaguely angry when she saw that the results of water canal management could not be applied to the prince.
He sent someone to call the prince out of the East Palace that night.
According to Pei Xingyuan's description, Empress Xu pointed at the prince's head and scolded him for not even giving him a chance to turn over.
Everyone in the open-air camp here is about to disperse.
Mi Xiayao dragged her slightly tired body to turn back, when someone in the crowd came upstream.
Song Qiao's eyes were frantically looking for someone. When she saw Madam, her eyes lit up, but soon she became sad.
"lady--"
When Mi Xiayao heard the familiar voice and saw Song Qiao, her originally raised eyebrows suddenly stopped.
Unreasonable panic and uneasiness rose in my heart.
Sure enough, Song Qiao walked up to her and cried, "The young master...is missing."
She suppressed her composure. Most of the people were in the open camp today...
"Why are you standing here so still?"
Mrs. Mi was walking behind. She saw a familiar voice in the crowd and saw Mi Xiayao.
With the loving nature of her elders, she was about to ask.
Mi Xiayao turned to look at Mrs. Mi. She was calm at first but panicked the next second, "My child is missing. Grandma, what should I do?"