Hearing Mrs. Sun's shouting, the servants immediately rushed into the house.
Mrs. Sun Er's eyes were widened and she was staring out the window. Such an expression made the hairs on her body stand up.
"Second Madam, what's wrong with you?" the maid came up and asked softly.
Mrs. Sun Er took a while to come back to her senses and pointed her finger over: "There is someone there. There was someone there just now."
Everyone turned around and saw only the shadows of the trees, but no human figures.
The mother in charge also stepped forward and said, "Second Madam, are you dazzled? When the wind blows, the branches sway very horribly."
Mrs. Sun Er swallowed a gulp and touched the peace talisman on her neck. The talisman was close to her chest, so warm that it seemed to dispel the cold air around her. She took a few deep breaths before she calmed down and said, "Let people be there."
Search the yard."
Only in this way can she feel at ease.
Soon the nursing home came to report, but no one was there.
Sun Runan, who was keeping vigil at the mourning hall, rushed over immediately after hearing the news. The mourning clothes on his body were particularly dazzling: "How is mother?"
Mrs. Sun Er frowned, waved her hand and said: "It's okay, maybe you were dazzled by what you saw. Go down, don't let your father be alone there."
Sun Run'an responded and wanted to bring hot tea to Mrs. Sun's second wife, but she was rejected by Mrs. Sun's second wife: "I have a servant to serve me."
Only then did Sun Runan retreat.
The mother in charge said: "Madam, don't worry, there are manpower deployed inside and outside here. If anyone dares to break in, he will definitely be discovered."
Although this sounds correct.
But Mrs. Sun Er knew very well that everything was not that simple.
Mrs. Sun Er said: "We were careful all the way to Beijing, but something happened to the master. Whether it was in Huguang or Beijing, the yamen were helpless about the case." Then she looked at the mother in charge, "Do you think it will happen?"
That was not a human being, but an innocent soul. He was there just now. He didn't come in because I was wearing an amulet and he couldn't enter my body."
The mother in charge gently patted Mrs. Sun Er's back: "Madam, good luck has its own destiny... The murderer should be caught soon. Please rest for a while. I will stay here."
Mrs. Sun Er nodded after hearing this, but she couldn't sleep anymore, or she felt that there was a pair of eyes staring at her in the dark, and then the tragic scene of the master's mouth full of blood would appear in her mind.
After the master died, he had a gloomy look on his face, as if he had turned into a ghost seeking life.
Mrs. Sun Er clutched the amulet tightly and recited scriptures in her mouth. She just hoped that the night would pass quickly and that there would be good news in the Yamen tomorrow.
…
"Get some water, I want to take a bath."
At dawn, Qing Huan got up from the bed. She hadn't slept well that night. Maybe a bath would cheer her up.
Submerging her body into the water, Qing Huan thought of what Song Chengxuan said last night.
As expected, he is a difficult traitor who always knows how to disrupt other people's thoughts at critical moments.
The case of Mr. Sun Er was just as she said. The murderer seemed to be deliberately punishing and retaliating against the Sun family, which reminded her of the Cao family case.
When Cao Ruwan was killed, the murderer also used this method to punish the Cao family for their actions based on the secrets of the Cao family.
The same is true for the case of the wife of the Marquis of Guangping. The murderer started from her identity as a spy and punished the entire Guangping Marquis. If this is the inertial thinking of the person behind all this.
So what did the Anyihou Mansion that was targeted first do anything wrong?
She tentatively asked her father, who only admitted that he had a knot in his mind, but never mentioned the reason. She guessed that the truth must be of great importance.
Her father refused to say, so she could only speculate tentatively.
My father's negative attitude seems to have started from the rebellion of King Wei. Is my father's knot related to King Wei?
Ever since she became sensible, she had only heard her family mention "King Wei" once in Zhuangzi, but she was quickly stopped by her grandmother. However, she also knew that her father had some friendship with King Wei.
When she was trapped in the capital in her previous life, someone would always mention her father's loyal actions in suppressing King Wei's rebellion in the court. Although she felt the undercurrent of it, she had too many things to deal with at that time.
My body is getting worse and worse, and I don't have much energy to worry about it anymore.
But even so, she also knew that King Wei was very important to the Anyi Hou Mansion.
As she continued to think along this line, she felt more and more that her guess was correct.
The Sun family is the brother-in-law of the Zhang family. When the King of Wei rebelled, he reported meritorious service, and the second master Sun was awarded the title of school captain. Only then did the Sun family have the qualifications to join a famous family.
Although the Marquis of Guangping has lived in the northwest for a long time, he also sent troops to suppress the rebellion, so he was deeply trusted by the late emperor.
As for the case of the Cao family and Fengxiang, it is not that it has nothing to do with the King of Wei. The reason why the King of Wei was invited out of the mountain was because of Zhao Chong's rebellion. The late emperor was seriously ill and had no time to take care of the matter, so he needed the King of Wei to stabilize the overall situation.
In these cases, teenagers aged thirteen or fourteen were involved. The rebellion of King Wei happened exactly thirteen years ago. Is the person behind the scenes conveying any message to them?
On the surface, everything seems to be really related to King Wei.
And these people who had been related to King Wei's rebellion were all forced to be involved in the case.
There is only one exception, and that is Song Chengxuan.
Not to mention that the Song family is far away in the southeast. The Song family was not a big family more than ten years ago. Even today's Song Chengxuan has just become famous in the southeast and seems to have done nothing wrong.
But Song Chengxuan came to Fengxiang because of the case and went to Beijing with them. She thought that after catching Wang Yun, Song Chengxuan would leave the capital like he did in his previous life.
She did not expect that Song Chengxuan would start investigating the case of Mr. Sun Er again.
When she investigates the case, in addition to protecting the Anyi Hou Mansion, she also wants to find out the truth that she never knew in her previous life.
What is Song Chengxuan's purpose in investigating the case? Now he has just emerged in the Southeast. At this time, he should quietly return to the Southeast to strengthen himself before everyone notices, but why does he hold on to a case?
Unless these cases are closely related to his own safety and interests.
As early as on the way back to Beijing, Wang Yun tried to pin the case on Song Chengxuan, so Song Chengxuan sensed the crisis and was determined to reveal Wang Yun's true face.
So what clues have been revealed in the current case of Mr. Sun Er, Song Chengxuan is concerned about it and must investigate the case personally.
Think along this line of thinking.
The person who killed Mr. Sun seemed to be revealing that the case was related to King Wei.
Song Chengxuan was concerned about such a clue.
That's why she asked Song Chengxuan: "Do you think this was done by King Wei's people?"
Unexpectedly, this man gave her an unexpected answer.
It was deliberately disturbing her thoughts.
Still telling the truth.
It became increasingly difficult for her to understand what the traitor wanted to achieve and what his plans were.
"Miss."
Just as Xu Qinghuan was getting up and getting dressed, Feng Chu came in and said, "That Mrs. Sun Er is here. She said she came to thank us for catching the two thieves yesterday."
Xu Qinghuan nodded. Thank you was just an excuse for Mrs. Sun. In fact... Mrs. Sun was probably here to inquire about the news.
What news does Mrs. Sun want to know?
Xu Qinghuan said: "Tell the madam and I will come over right away."
…
Mrs. Sun Er sat restlessly on a chair drinking tea.
Accidents occurred one after another in the Sun family. First, the uncle's youngest son broke his leg while riding a horse, and then the uncle's eldest son met a thief when he went to visit the outer room. He was stabbed in the chest, and the accompanying steward was also seriously injured. The case occurred in
At night, the steward didn't even see the face of the murderer.
Mrs. Sun Er swallowed. The Sun family is also a well-known figure in Huguang. Their master is also a Zhongwu captain awarded by the imperial court. Everyone in the yamen must pay three points of respect. Now that there is a murder case in the Sun family, the master will naturally go to the yamen.
Ask for the crime and urge the Yamen to solve the case quickly.
I thought this was an unexpected disaster, but unexpectedly, something happened to the Yan family, which has business dealings with Master Yan. Master Yan usually likes to gamble. When he returned home from the gambling shop, he also encountered a murderer.
The knife pierced the chest, the method was clean and neat.
It was this case that really caught their attention, and they felt that the murderer had deliberately chosen the two of them.
Although Mr. Yan likes to gamble, the gambling shop he goes to is a private one. Ever since Mr. Yan lost his family through gambling more than ten years ago, the Yan family has been very strict with Mr. Yan. Even the top of the Yan family has not known about it.
Master Yan’s whereabouts.
The murderer not only found out Master Yan's secret, but also found the right opportunity to kill him. Not only that, Master Yan also found the jade pendant of his uncle's eldest son on his body.
There is no need for the Yamen to investigate. The murderer has already told the world that the two cases were committed by the same person.
A while later, Mr. Sun Er was entertaining business partners at a restaurant. When he came back, he found that something had been hung up, a fan pendant.
Mr. Yan likes to play with fans, and the fan pendant belongs to Mr. Yan.
After receiving such a thing, both she and the master were filled with fear. Maybe the master was the next person the murderer wanted to kill.
Now that the master was indeed killed, although she was sad, she wanted to know if anything else was missing from the master, so that she could guess whether the murderer would kill again.
And this was also the purpose of her coming to Anyihou Mansion.