"After Qing'er's accident, she made trouble several times, so the prince banned her from appearing in front of others again..."
Mrs. Wen was not stupid either. Knowing that Xu Mingyi had the intention of asking this question, she immediately ordered the dowry nun to bring Cui Yunwei over.
Although she had asked all the questions that needed to be asked, she and Wei'er had been overwhelmed with anxiety and worry these days. Maybe the eldest sister and the Xu family girl could ask other key questions.
"Mom, is there any news about my second sister?!"
Cui Yunwei quickly arrived at the Imperial Courtyard, holding up the hem of her skirt and walking quickly, almost running into the inner room.
Looking at her daughter with sweat on her forehead and an expectant but uneasy expression, Wen felt a throbbing pain in her heart. She shook her head slightly and said, "It's your aunt and cousin who want to ask about your second sister."
Cui Yunwei suppressed her disappointment before she even bothered to salute Ms. Cui.
"Aunt, cousin Zhaozhao..."
"Sit down and talk." Cui said softly.
Cui Yunwei nodded and sat down, her pale face no longer lively and bright as before.
"In Cousin Wei's opinion, was there anything unusual about Cousin Qing before the accident?" Xu Mingyi asked aloud: "Or, have you ever seen anyone worth paying attention to?"
Since he went out alone and sold his jewelry, even if it wasn't for elopement, there must be something else going on.
Wen looked at her daughter and said, "Weier, think about it carefully..."
"Two days before my second sister's accident, I was very cold and didn't go out of the yard. On the day my second sister's accident happened, I felt much better after taking a nap. I went to look for her in her yard, but the maid said she had gone out, so I
So I went back. It wasn’t until the next day that I found out that my second sister was missing!”
Cui Yunwei recalled with regret: "The last time I saw my second sister was three days before her accident. On that day, my second sister and I went to Shang Yu Pavilion to buy a bracelet for my mother."
If the wind and cold had been lighter during those few days, she wouldn't have been unable to see her second sister for several days, and why she wouldn't have been able to detect any clues.
But before that, she really didn't think there was anything wrong with her second sister from beginning to end——
Hearing this, what happened in Shangyu Pavilion that day flashed through Xu Mingyi's mind.
It turns out that the incident happened three days after Cousin Qing appeared in Shang Yu Pavilion.
Mentioning the matter of buying a bracelet, Wen felt even more distressed.
She didn't know that what she looked at several times in Shang Yu Pavilion that day was secretly remembered by her two daughters.
After buying the bracelet, Qing'er also said that when she saw her in Shang Yuge looking at the bracelet and forcing a smile, she felt very uncomfortable. As a daughter, she also wanted to make her mother happy.
But how can she force a smile on her face...
She was thinking at the time that although she couldn't buy this bracelet today, her mother-in-law would not live long. When the middle gift and dowry were returned to her hands, she would be able to buy whatever she wanted from now on.
——Thinking like this, I couldn’t help but reveal a smile.
But Qing'er was so thoughtful that she actually thought so much.
This book is nothing. In the final analysis, the daughter is filial and considerate, and the mother can only feel gratified.
But it happened that only three days after buying this bracelet, something happened to Qing'er——
"In order to buy this bracelet for me, these two children took all their personal money." Wen Shi said reproachfully: "I thought, Qing'er must have some need for money, but...
She has a somewhat arrogant temperament, and she probably didn’t want to be known, so she went out alone to sell her jewelry quietly. If she really encountered some bad people or schemes on the road because of this... wouldn’t it be me, the mother, who harmed her? "
"What are you saying, mother! It's the person who harmed my second sister who was wrong, how could she be the mother!"
Cui Yunwei bit her lip and plucked up the courage to say: "Let me tell you, Xia Xi may not have done this! That day in Shang Yu Pavilion, she made things difficult for me and my second sister in every possible way. Maybe it was her deliberate revenge.
!”
Wen's expression changed slightly.
"Weier, if there is no proof, how can you still say random things, but you have forgotten why your father banned you?"
She also asked her father to roughly verify this matter. There was nothing unusual about the fourth girl of the Xia family recently.
"Without evidence, you really can't accuse others easily. But if there is something really suspicious, you should tell it." Xu Mingyi looked at Cui Yunwei and asked: "Besides Xia Xi, has Cousin Qing ever had conflicts with anyone else?
?”
Cui Yunwei shook her head without thinking.
"Second sister has a reserved and kind temperament. Unless she is pushed into a hurry, she will never argue with anyone!"
"Where's the one named Qi Lin?"
Xu Mingyi asked again: "Does he really have any contact with Qing's cousin on weekdays?"
"There are quite a few contacts." Cui Yunwei said truthfully: "When my second sister and I were studying in the clan since childhood, he often went to the library, but in the past two years we have hardly seen each other."
She and her second sister have not been to school since they turned twelve last year.
Qi Lin stayed with his father, waiting for the pen and ink. He was in the front yard and rarely had the chance to meet them.
"But it's absolutely impossible for my second sister to run away with him...to run away with him! Cui Yunwei said firmly.
Xu Mingyi did not comment, but continued to ask: "Before the accident, was Qi Lin any different from usual people?"
The uncle must have inquired carefully about these matters.
Sure enough, I heard Wenshi say: "A few days before that, his mother happened to be seriously ill outside the house. He went back and forth between the uncle's house and his family's old house all day long, and often no one was seen for half a day. If there was something unusual, it would be.
No one will notice."
A person whose mother is seriously ill will not be taken seriously even if he behaves a little differently than before.
"Seriously ill?" Ms. Cui frowned slightly.
Your mother is seriously ill, are you still in the mood to imitate others and elope?
No matter how you look at this, there is nothing wrong with it.
"On the second day after Qing'er disappeared, someone from the government went to his home and found that the woman had died of illness... It seemed that she had been dead for a day or two." At this point, Wen's expression changed again.
It's a bit ugly: "In other words, he should have known that his mother had passed away before he disappeared, but he didn't mention it to the outside world, and he didn't prepare for the funeral! However, all the valuable things in the house have been sold off.
Already."
Therefore, some servants in the mansion who knew about it came up with the idea that "this was under the pretext of serving their seriously ill mother, they were secretly preparing to elope outside the mansion." "Seeing that my mother was dead, I no longer cared about her, and I didn't even care about the funeral.
The second girl was taken away as soon as possible.” Such speculations were made.
Xu Mingyi listened and thought.
This man named Qi Lin is obviously very suspicious.
If it is not an elopement, then this person is deliberately creating the illusion of an elopement.
This intention is undoubtedly to prevent the uncle's family from delving into the matter, in order to cover up and confuse the truth about Qing's cousin's disappearance——
So...did he have his own evil thoughts, or was he ordered and bribed by someone?
