Jiang Banxue was frowning and thinking, and from the corner of her eye, she happened to catch sight of Yin Rou and Yuan Qianyi lying unconscious in the woodshed. She quickly stood up and ran over while shouting: "
Princess, madam!"
Hearing her exclamation, Xiao Min and Ao Qing were both shocked. Could it be that the princess and his wife were not kidnapped? The two followed Jiang Banxue and rushed into the woodshed. After entering, the three of them took a closer look.
They took a breath in unison.
I saw Yin Rou and Yuan Qianyi lying together, with their eyes closed tightly, unable to move, and they did not know whether they were alive or dead.
Jiang Banxue was the first to squat down, first felt the breath of Yin Rou and Yuan Qianyi, and then touched their pulses. Then he breathed a long sigh of relief, raised his head and said to Xiao Min and Ao Qing, who were pale, "Don't worry.
, the princess and madam just passed out, their lives are not in danger!"
Xiao Min and Ao Qing were surprised and happy, and they supported Yin Rou and Yuan Qianyi respectively. Just as Jiang Banxue said, they were just unconscious, their breathing was even, their pulses were stable, and there were no signs of serious injuries.
"Princess! Princess, wake up, Princess, wake up quickly!" Xiao Min supported Yin Rou and called repeatedly.
Yin Rou, who had fainted, frowned slightly. After a moment, she faintly woke up, raised her hand, subconsciously rubbed her painful forehead, groaned, and then opened her eyes and saw herself.
Lying in Xiao Min's arms, she asked in confusion: "Xiao Min? I...what's wrong with me?"
Seeing Yin Rou wake up, Xiao Min felt sad and happy at the same time. He couldn't help crying and laughing, and kept saying: "It's okay if the princess is okay, it's okay if she's okay!"
She also wanted to know what happened to the princess and Mrs. De Rong in the backyard, but seeing Yin Rou's confused face, she could not continue to ask. In short, it was a great blessing that the princess was fine.
Soon, Yuan Qianyi also slowly woke up. Her expression was exactly the same as Yin Rou's. She was also full of confusion and confusion, and her eyes were distracted and empty as she looked around.
Through the gap between Xiao Min and others, she suddenly saw the corpse outside the woodshed. She shivered and screamed subconsciously. Her face instantly turned pale and she exclaimed: "Chun'er...
"As she spoke, she struggled to stand up and staggered about to run out.
Ao Qing hurriedly grabbed her and whispered with a sad expression: "Madam, Miss Chun'er and the others... I wish Madam to express my condolences!"
Everyone in the palace knows that Yuan Qianyi is close to the four maids of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. On weekdays, the five masters and servants are inseparable and intimate. Now that the four maids have died tragically, Ao Qing is really afraid of Yuan Qianyi.
Yihui can't bear the blow.
Sure enough, when Ao Qing told her to express her condolences, Yuan Qianyi stayed there, as if her strength had been drained from her body. She shook a few times and then collapsed limply.
"Madam—" Ao Qing hurriedly supported her.
Yuan Qianyi turned to look at Ao Qing and said nothing, but her big eyes were like broken pearls, flowing down. The kind of silent grief she showed would probably make anyone who saw her feel distressed.
She is not completely pretending. After all, the four girls in spring, summer, autumn and winter have been by her side for too long. It is impossible to say that she has no feelings. But at this moment, she has no choice but to
Get rid of them to save yourself.
In fact, it is easy for Yuan Qianyi to kill them. He can do it in the palace without such trouble. But there is one thing. If four maids died in the palace, and they were the closest relatives of Mrs. De Rong.
The palace maid will definitely alarm many people, and may even alarm Tang Yin. If the matter is further investigated, she will inevitably be involved, and even the fact that she is Shenchi Shosaku will most likely be found out.
Yuan Qianyi could not and did not dare to take this risk, so she used the excuse of holding Yin Rou hostage to trick the four girls out of the palace, creating the illusion that they were assassinated. In this way, no one would doubt her anymore, and people would only regard her as
She and Yin Rou were treated as victims together.
Her plan cannot be said to be perfect, but in her opinion, it is at least the most effective. Of course, the appearance of those ruffians was purely accidental, and it was precisely because of their appearance that she gave her the opportunity to control the four women.
Good opportunity to start.
At this time, Yuan Qianyi was crying silently, and Yin Rou was crying with her. Xiao Min, Ao Qing, and Jiang Banxue were standing by and didn't know how to persuade each other. They looked at each other and were helpless.
I don't know how long it took, but suddenly there was chaos in the market outside the teahouse. Countless soldiers swarmed in and surrounded the huge teahouse.
The people nearby didn't understand what happened. They gathered around and looked outside the soldiers.
Soon, people saw that the soldiers who had rushed into the teahouse were withdrawing, and they also brought out several women. Because they were tightly protected by many soldiers, they could not clearly see their specific appearances.
After leaving the teahouse, several women got directly into the carriage, and left quickly, guarded by a large number of soldiers.
Not long after, another soldier came out of the teahouse and carried out several corpses wrapped in white cloth. The appearance of the corpses could not be clearly seen, and the white cloth was dyed red in large areas.
Next, the retreating soldiers escorted out a group of people, including the shopkeeper of the teahouse and a group of ruffians who were used to running rampant in the local area. The big man in the leader was tied up with five-flowered hair. Looking at his face, he had a bruised nose and swollen face, and his beard and hair were messy.
He was so embarrassed. Although he was being held by soldiers, his mouth was not idle. He kept shouting: "Misunderstanding, this must be a misunderstanding. I am a member of the Lieutenant's Mansion. If you arrest me, you are going against the Lieutenant's Mansion."
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No one answered him, no one even looked at him. The soldiers around him had sullen faces and dragged him out of the teahouse like a dead dog.
The people watching the excitement around were talking about what happened, while many vendors in the market were secretly applauding.
The leading villain was named Wange, a well-known local bully. Because he had learned Lingwu when he was young and was pretty good at it, he opened a martial arts gym here, recruited apprentices, and made friends. Over time, Wange
His network of contacts became wider and wider, and he gradually gained a large group of followers.
Because he had many contacts and was a local leader, he knew everything about the place. After Feng Guo moved its capital to Zhenjiang, the Lieutenant's Mansion naturally took a fancy to him. Although he was not recruited into the Lieutenant's Mansion as an errand, he was included in the list.
Among the informants in the Lieutenant's Mansion.
Since they had the Lieutenant's Mansion as their backer, they had become more emboldened to rely on, and they were able to act unscrupulously in the local area and plunder. This market was their main place of activity on weekdays.
In the market, no matter small traders or large merchants, if they want to sell things here, they must pay protection fees to them. If someone dares to disobey, they will be injured by them, and in serious cases, they will be maimed or even killed.
Because they were protected by the Lieutenant's Mansion, the government did not dare to provoke them easily. Once something happened, they would just turn a blind eye. This further fueled Wange's arrogance, bullying men and women in the local area, and doing all kinds of evil.
, he simply became a local emperor.
The vendors in the market already hated him deeply, but they could do nothing about him. Now that they saw him being captured by the army, how could they not be happy in their hearts?
The soldiers who came were not ordinary officers and soldiers, but palace guards. The palace guards didn't care who you were, but they dared to assassinate the princess and his wife, and also killed four palace ladies. How could they be spared?
Tang Yin knew about Yin Rou and Yuan Qianyi's disguise and secretly left the palace for fun. The guards below had already reported it to him. He did not immediately send anyone to chase him. In fact, he could understand Yin Rou and Yuan Qianyi's behavior.
Their mood was that they stayed in the palace all day long, isolated from the world, lonely and bored. Since they wanted to go out for fun today, he didn't stop them. He just arranged for the guards to take them back to the palace in two hours.
As a result, such a change occurred within these two hours, which Tang Yin did not expect.
When Yin Rou and Yuan Qianyi returned to the palace, Tang Yin had been waiting at the entrance of the palace for a long time. After seeing that they only had injuries on their foreheads and nothing serious, he breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart that was hanging in his throat finally dropped.
Go down.
He held Yin Rou with one hand and Yuan Qianyi with the other, and asked with concern: "How is the injury? Does it still hurt?"
Yin Rou let out a cry, threw herself into Tang Yin's arms and burst into tears. Yuan Qianyi was much stronger than her, her eyes were red, and she just cried silently. Of course, this was in line with her always independent character.
Tang Yin gently supported Yin Rou's back, knowing that she was frightened, and said softly: "It's okay, don't be afraid, it's okay." After speaking, he looked at Yuan Qianyi again and said: "
I will definitely find out the murderer and give Chun'er and the others justice."
He had a good impression of the four maids of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. He felt that these girls were quite clever. It was a pity that they were killed so innocently. No matter whether it was public or private, he wanted to get to the bottom of the matter.
After whispering to comfort Yin Rou and Yuan Qianyi for a while, Tang Yin winked at Xiao Min and Ao Qing, signaling them to send them back to the palace to rest.
Jiang Banxue was about to follow them, but Tang Yin stopped her and watched Yin Rou and Yuan Qianyi disappear. The expression on his face was immediately replaced by gloom, and he asked: "What's going on? Rou'er and Yuan Qianyi disappeared.
Why was Qianyi attacked, and how were Chun'er and the others killed? Who was responsible?"
Jiang Banxue pondered for a long time, then slowly shook his head and said: "This matter... is weird!"
"What do you mean?" Tang Yin looked at her puzzled.
Jiang Banxue told Tang Yin exactly what happened. Finally, she said: "On the surface, the thieves who attacked the princess and his wife should be the same gang as those gangsters, but I have carefully examined the wounds on the bodies.
, the murderer is obviously a top-notch master, and he should not associate with ruffians. Furthermore, if the thief's target is the princess and his wife, why did he only kill the maid and the shop assistant, but not hurt the lives of the princess and his wife?
I really can’t figure out what the thief’s purpose is for doing this!”
Tang Yin listened carefully. After Jiang Banxue finished speaking, he rubbed his chin and asked, "Could it be that after killing Chun'er and the others, the thieves arrived before they could attack Rou'er and Qianyi?"
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Jiang Banxue nodded and responded: "Yes, Your Majesty, this is also possible, but if the thief is so powerful, will he really be scared away by three of us? Are you so timid if you dare to attack the princess and his wife?
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